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...piece on Federal Judge Norma Holloway Johnson [NATION, March 16], we reported remarks suggesting that she would hold William Ginsburg, attorney for Monica Lewinsky, in contempt for speaking about his client in public. Ginsburg says this did not occur. TIME regrets mischaracterizing these remarks...
...country, though, that owed him a debt. So too did the world of free men and women to whom he had made a constant and inclusive appeal in his magnificent speeches from embattled Britain in 1940 and 1941. Churchill did not merely hate tyranny, he despised it. The contempt he breathed for dictators--renewed in his Iron Curtain speech at Fulton, Mo., at the outset of the cold war--strengthened the West's faith in the moral superiority of democracy and the inevitability of its triumph...
...penalties of up to a year in jail and $2,500 fines. Arkansas adopted a parental-responsibility law in 1995, under which courts can order parents or guardians to attend a "parent responsibility training program." Parents must complete the program and pay for its cost or be sanctioned for contempt. According to Glynn, Arkansas can also bring a criminal prosecution against a parent "whose gross neglect of parental duty" leads to the criminal acts of a child. Under that statute, however, parents face only a maximum $250 fine with no jail time...
...barred by Judge Susan Webber Wright -- and they're going all the way to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis to ask for the Monica ban to be rescinded. Meanwhile, back in Little Rock, Clinton attorneys are asking that Jones be held in contempt for revealing the identity of a woman whom Clinton allegedly assaulted back...
...billion man, BILL GATES, will testify for the first time before Congress. Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee to address Microsoft's allegedly anticompetitive practices, Gates will try to bury the impression that he disdains the "other" Washington and its institutions. To help mask his well-known contempt, Gates, who has complained that committee chairman ORRIN HATCH has targeted him, has been rehearsing his testimony in front of a "murder board" of advisers. Gates will also subject himself to a day of glad handing, pleading the company's case in one-on-one meetings with Senators, including majority leader TRENT...