Word: court
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...might have been tipped off by Medina. A military surveillance team subsequently was assigned to tail the general. The spying operation reportedly established ties between Medina and both Escobar and another drug baron, Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, nicknamed "El Mexicano." Apparently not certain that the evidence would hold up in court, the government allowed Medina to retire. Two days after Medina's successor, General Miguel Antonio Gomez Padilla, took over, the National Police launched Operation Primavera, the most successful strike against cocaine producers in Colombian history...
America has long believed in the theory that absolute job security increases the odds of independence and moral courage. College professors are granted tenure to ensure their right to voice unpopular opinions. Supreme Court Justices serve for life to free them from having to bow to the prevailing political winds. All these arrangements make sense, until one considers the curious case of the U.S. House of Representatives...
...focuses on the forces behind demonstrations and mass gatherings in the modern world. The film opens with a scene from a military parade in Budapest during the Chernobyl disaster and ends with Sandra Day O'Connor's visit to a San Francisco rally the week after the Supreme Court ruled on the sodomy...
...forget is that a woman's right to have an abortion is intimately tied to a woman's right not to have an abortion. To overturn Roe would be to decide that the state could make the most private of a woman's choices for her. If the Court rules that the state may deny a woman an abortion, it is, by extension, implying that the state could force an abortion...
...when it comes to squash, Harvard rules Dartmouth and other teams like a king rules his court. While some viewed its loss to Princeton as the end of a reign, the Crimson moved a step closer to it's seventh straight Ivy and national championships with a 7-2 victory against the Big Green yesterday...