Word: courting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Couric interview, Palin had to convince voters she was ready to lead the country if need be. For her relaunch with Oprah and Barbara, the bar was lower: to show America that she could make it through interviews with Oprah and Barbara. (A full-court press from The View--now that would be a challenge.) She reined in her wild syntax, tossed about folksy-isms like "bullcrap" and called President Obama's economic policies "back-assward." And she stressed her average-Jane image: she let Oprah's cameras follow her to the gym; in her book, she recalls going door...
...Terriers marched back up the court, but this time, Curry came up with the steal...
Freshman Brandyn Curry dribbled up the court and found Lin on the left wing with just enough space to sink the three that gave Harvard its first lead since the opening minutes of the second half...
Still traumatized by those years and subsequent decades of political instability, many Cambodians had hoped that the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal, a hybrid Cambodian-international court, would help push the country toward reconciliation. In November 2007, Theary Seng, now a human-rights lawyer in Phnom Penh, applied to become the first civil party at the Khmer Rouge tribunal - whereby she and other Khmer Rouge victims are participating in the criminal proceedings with their own set of lawyers. On Friday, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) - the official name of the tribunal - finished hearing its first case...
...There have been allegations of a kickback scheme where Cambodian employees at the tribunal are forced to pay back a part of their salaries to the government officials who gave them their jobs. On two different occasions, only last-minute donations from Japan allowed the Cambodian side of the court to pay its staff. Then, in a fiasco dubbed Waterlilygate, one of the international lawyers said documents found in a moat filled with lilies had been stolen from his office. And last week the New York-based Open Society Justice Initiative, an international law monitor, accused the Cambodian government...