Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Italian ski-lift accident last February have finally broken ranks: Capt. Chandler Seagraves has been granted immunity for his testimony about a videotape allegedly made during the fatal flight. But how did investigators scale the wall of silence that the four men had kept up for so long? Common sense...
...More common than a blanket defense of exemptions is a query: Isn't there a way to discourage faith-healing-related deaths that is less harsh and more proactive than throwing well-meaning, bereaved parents in jail after the tragic fact? In 1994 Minnesota passed a law requiring parents to alert authorities if their medical boycott endangered their children, leaving it to the state to intervene if necessary. The results are inconclusive: a check on the state's biggest county shows that no one has self-reported. And Michael McConnell, a lawyer who has defended faith-healing parents in neglect...
...those killed in the African embassy bombings to "I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong." So it has always gone with Clinton. He is the spiritual leader of the people, driven by compassion and graced with charm and a common touch unknown in the presidency for decades. And he is also the lusty, leering bad ole boy who sweats and groans on the national church floor after services, and who soils other people's clothing...
Indeed, Judge Judy dispenses her decisions with a swiftness not seen since Robespierre. And for a judge, she seems surprisingly nonchalant about the law. "The law is supposed to be based on common sense. But in the last 25 or 30 years, legislatures have grafted onto the common-law statutes that sort of fit a particular scenario," she explains. "It's something that I was frustrated with as a sitting judge in New York...
...these labels of straight and gay, and then by the end of the film forget that Billy is gay. The labels don't really mean that much." That is an aim of the new Gay Wave: to tear off the labels of stereotype, the better to consider the common fabric of our emotional lives...