Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know that the first thing any gullible high school student thinks of when he is accepted by Harvard is tradition. After all, not just any place can claim to have been the first college founded on these shores; even is this fortunate circumstance is overlooked, only eight universities can boast of Ivy League status. Besides all this, who else can show off such prominent alumni as James Schlesinger, Henry Kissinger, Archibald Cox, James D(NA) Watson, and Teddy Kennedy, along with some lively cynicism from Ralph Nader. And then what about distinguished likes of Henry James, John Dos Passos...
...prosecution team, led by Levi's-clad Assistant District Attorney Ashley Anderson, 29, based much of its claim that Longet had behaved recklessly on the testimony of Aspen Detective David Garms. He related how Longet had told him after the shooting, "I raised the gun and playfully went 'Boom, boom,' and it went off." Anderson also tried to establish that Longet was reckless by nature. He called Williams to testify against his ex, but the singer defended her. He denied that he had told an Aspen neighbor the day after the shooting that Longet was a "crazy...
Last Efforts. Outside the prison, the many-sided legal battles raced on. Attorney Douglas Wallace, an excommunicated Mormon, petitioned the Supreme Court to stop the firing squad because, he claimed, it was part of "a paganistic ritual" supported by the Mormon-dominated Utah legislature. The court rejected his petition. Two last-minute efforts to save Gilmore began on Friday. American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer V. Jinks Dabney filed a class-action suit in district court seeking a delay. His claim: that the execution was a waste of taxpayers' money, and that the state would be liable for damages...
...Salt Lake City Tribune and television station KUTV that the federal court should break the state's 82-year-old ban on press attendance at executions and let them, the Deseret News and two other TV stations cover Gilmore's death. There was a precedent for the claim since a Texas court ruled three weeks ago that a Dallas television station had the right to film an execution at the state prison. The judge in Utah ruled, however, that the Tribune and KUTV had no particular right to cover the execution. That left Gilmore free to assign...
Leslie Kagan, a member of the Susan Saxe Defense Committee, denied Gaffney's claim yesterday. "There was no way it is a victory for the prosecution. Gaffney has yet to prove Susan Saxe guilty before a jury, or even guilty of anything. We understand he was afraid of another trial and therefore he initiated the plea bargaining," Kagan said...