Word: code
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...steady, almost monotonous voice, Court President Leon Carlos Arslanian read a summary of the justices' 2,000-page decision. He and his brethren, he explained, had studied the country's criminal code and all the legal depositions presented to them. They had consulted international law specialists and considered the theories of conventional and revolutionary warfare, as well as the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. But, said Arslanian, "we have not found one single rule that justifies, much less excuses, the authors of facts that have been brought before this trial...
Maimonides conceived his Mishneh Torah as a single unifying law code for Judaism. Although it never became that, his work substantially affected every later development in Jewish scholarship. By many accounts, Maimonides' legal compendium provided a strength that enabled Judaism to avoid factionalism during the Muslim and Christian persecutions of the Middle Ages. The Guide of the Perplexed influenced the metaphysical speculations of Thomas Aquinas and other Christian scholastics while being largely ignored by medieval Judaism. But for modern Jews, says Biblical Scholar Nahum Sarna of Brandeis University, Maimonides provides "the model of a person who is able to accept...
Although hackers have a complex code of etiquette, they are hard pressed to list rules to the game. "There are two rules that are almost accepted," says Charles S. Zender '86-'87. "One is that you can't say you're sorry if you mess up. The other is that if you do, you suffer hack punishment...
...certainly weren't cautioned about this," said a freshman in the unit whose proctor resigned. "Upperclassmen going out with freshmen doesn't seem to bother anyone," the freshman said, but prefects must adhere to a stricter code of conduct...
...World Series during the last weekend of October, Dan Rostenkowski, the Illinois Democrat who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, was trying to stage a dramatic rally of his own. Only a few days before, his goal of presiding over a thorough reform of the U.S. income tax code had seemed virtually dead. But Rostenkowski called extraordinary Saturday and Sunday sessions of his committee in an attempt to breathe new life into the tax-reform effort. Though the meetings broke up at dinnertime, giving the baseball fans in the group a chance to watch the World Series, the lawmakers...