Word: courting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much as a great number of people, abortion opponents included, disliked the website and the posters, did they actually warrant criminal prosecution? The court and even the plaintiffs admitted that "no statement contained in the text...is expressly threatening." So why were the defendants found guilty? The court believed that threats could be inferred from their actions because of the backdrop of anti-abortion violence in the country. The list, they argued, could easily be construed as a "hit list," providing information for anyone who wants to kill an abortionist. Perhaps it does, but so do the Boston yellow pages...
Five years ago this August, several weeks after Congress had extended the independent counsel law for another five years, a three-judge panel appointed by Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist made a decision that marked the beginning of the end for the current statute. The judges replaced Whitewater prosecutor Robert B. Fiske Jr, who had angered Senate Republicans by concluding there was no basis for a criminal investigation into the president's failed real estate venture, with a largely unknown judge with no prosecutorial experience. Before he would come to the same conclusion as Fiske four...
...When a court of law finds someone guilty of a sex offense, what further or more permanent evidence does Harvard need to believe that someone is, in fact, guilty of a sex offense and should be punished in kind? So far, the administration's response to this question has been unconvincing...
...acknowledge that because the Ad Board is not a court of law, it is not equipped to deal with the sensitive nature and legal intricacies of sexual assault cases? The Ad Board will not review cases of armed robbery or murder. They send these cases to the court system. What makes rape a special brand of violent crime? Or, perhaps more accurately, why hasn't Harvard formally acknowledged sexual assault of all kinds, including "date rape," as violent crime? If anything, it seems that sexual assault is something Harvard would want to send to the courts rather than assume liability...
...Harvard trailing Brown by one, Monti took the inbound pass the length of the floor up the right sideline and drew a double-team from the Bears. The resourceful rookie used a behind-the-back dribble, nearly losing control of the ball, to shift her position on the court and heaved a fall away three-pointer that found its mark as time expired and lifted Harvard to victory...