Word: codicil
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Altman's shifting explanation of his behavior proves once more that the axiom is true: it is the cover-up, not the original sin, that tends to bring down government officials. But to this axiom there is a Clinton codicil. Overschooled in damage control during the 1992 campaign, Clinton White House officials have exerted a kind of obsessive reluctance at every level to just let the government do its work. Evidence is growing that rather than allowing the RTC to try to recover the $47 million in lost taxpayer funds from the officers of a failed savings and loan...
First he called his family lawyer and dictated a new codicil to his will. Then he wrote three letters -- to his children, to his mother and "To whom it may concern." As Shapiro explained later, Garcetti's office finally called and said police were coming to take O.J. into custody. But when the forensic psychiatrist went to get O.J., he and Cowlings were gone. The hunt...
...rejects both her love and her offer to help with his work. He is uncontrollably jealous of attentions paid her by his impoverished cousin Will Ladislaw (Rufus Sewell), a handsome would-be artist turned political journalist. After Casaubon's death, Dorothea discovers that he has added a humiliating codicil to his will: she will forfeit his estate if she marries Ladislaw -- which, at Middlemarch's end, she does anyway. (In an unconvincing final chapter, which the series summarizes in a voice-over, Eliot assures readers that the marriage is a happy...
...Mellamphy. He lives with his mother in a small village; he has no knowledge of his father, nor does he realize that Mellamphy is not his real surname. Gradually, he comes to understand that his mother possesses something that a number of other people desperately want. It is the codicil to an old, disputed will concerning the immense Huffam estate. The present holder of that property, Sir Perceval Mompesson, wants to obtain the codicil so he can destroy it. But another, mysterious enemy can lay claim to the estate if he can 1) get his hands on the codicil...