Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main attraction of the symposium--which attracted about 150 educators from around the country--was Schlichtmann, who was the focus of "A Civil Action." Schlichtmann--played by John Travolta in the film--spoke about how the case changed him from a hotshot, Porsche-driving lawyer to a proponent of compromise and mediation...
Just a few weeks after the release of "A Civil Action," the Robert Redford film based on the 1986 landmark court case Anne Anderson, et. al v. W.R. Grace, et al, the real-life cast members gathered at the Harvard Law School (HLS) last Saturday to discuss the continuing importance of their case as a teaching tool in classrooms...
...stood in the well of the Senate, showing tremendous poise as she defended the President and took the House impeachment managers by storm. A little-known White House deputy counsel, Mills hurled their hypocrisy back in their faces. The managers, she intoned, had argued that "the entire house of civil rights might well fall" if Clinton escaped conviction. You could almost hear her muttering, "Spare me." "We've had imperfect leaders in the past," said Mills, referring to Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., "and we'll have imperfect leaders...
...rhetoric wasn't fancy, but it was on target. The G.O.P. is a party, after all, that owes its post-Barry Goldwater resurgence to opposition to civil rights. And while its leaders from time to time proclaim their belief in racial justice, their pledges have been mostly lip service. They're too genteel for a sheet-wearing bigot like David Duke but all too willing to embrace bigotry if it's dressed in a suit...
...failing to turn subpoenaed documents over to the committee. Indiana Republican David McIntosh asked the Justice Department to investigate her for possible perjury and obstruction of justice. (Justice says the referral from the Hill is still being evaluated.) Last week, White House sources say, Mills toned down the civil rights aspects of her speech at the urging of more politically minded members of the President's defense team. But she still managed to tap the fury many blacks feel as they watch the spectacle of these proceedings...