Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shepard had become a cause c?l?bre, why didn't this rate the same treatment?) Could it be because we in the the media elite were unwilling to publicize crimes committed by homosexuals because it didn't suit our agenda? The next stop in that line of reasoning was clear: That news is controlled by a bunch of gay-loving liberals only too happy to wield a double standard...
...include a clause for health-endangering situations. He was right to do so. It is a dangerous and delicate thing when the government starts making laws about what procedures doctors can and cannot perform in order to protect a patient's life or health, and this ban clearly was such legislation at its worst. By failing to protect the mother's health the ban effectively placed the fetus in a position of higher importance than the mother, a clear violation of women's Constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade...
...West realized at the time." Back then the Kremlin found itself playing catch-up as the generals ordered their men to seize Pristina airport, and right now in Chechnya it's unclear if the civilian political leaders or the generals are in charge. "The military is certainly making clear that it plans to finish the job that the Kremlin didn't let it finish in 1996," says Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier...
...participated in a fraudulent rape and kidnapping charge with racial overtones (the victim was a young black woman, the accused were a group of white men) and claimed to have evidence to prove that an assistant district attorney, Steve Pagones, had participated in the alleged crime. When it became clear that the accusation was false, Sharpton dug in his heels. He said, "We stated openly that Steven Pagones, the assistant district attorney did it.... If we're lying sue us, so we can go into court with you and prove you did it." Pagones did sue Sharpton for defamation...
Sharpton's record on violence and bigotry is clear. Yet, last Wednesday, Sharpton took his seat on the dais as an official guest of Harvard Law School, and the overwhelming majority of the student body and faculty was silent. The few who dared challenge Sharpton's appearance were booed and hissed by a crowd packed with Sharpton supporters...