Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twenty-six other former officials were said to be next on the list. Still other former Premiers and armed forces commanders were subjected to televised interrogations that were little better than kangaroo court proceedings. The papers carried gruesome pictures of the murdered generals. Censorship was imposed by a regime whose leaders had always objected bitterly to the Shah's harsh treatment of the press. Newspaper editors received calls from a newly appointed communications commissar, warning them to reflect "a proper Islamic emphasis" in their papers...
...nights later Bubba and two of his accomplices robbed a grocery and beat up a saleswoman. Indicted on four counts of armed robbery, he was convicted only a week later. His sentence: 48 years in prison without chance of parole, the product of a plea bargain by his court-appointed attorney...
...Esquire. "Our basic philosophy is nothing about the law. everything about lawyers and lawyering," says Brill. He promises investigative reporting on pettifoggery, news of the constantly shifting tides of power and prestige among law firms, and a regular column critiquing the performance of attorneys before the U.S. Supreme Court. American Lawyer Publisher Jay Kriegel, once an aide to former New York City Mayor John Lindsay, claims 9,000 subscribers now at $19.50 a year and hopes eventually to have as many...
Grumbach sued, and last month a French court found that he could not be dismissed summarily for his politics. Citing France's work code and its unique clause de conscience, which allows journalists to resign with full severance benefits if a politically hostile owner takes over their publication, the judges awarded Grumbach some $500,000 in back pay and indemnities. The decision sets no precedent under French law, but the size of the award is seen by some journalists as a sign that the courts may be on their side in ideological disputes caused by ownership changes. That...
...works designed for the station's exterior should blend smoothly with the lines of the building. They don't. For the outer court, David Phillips has designed a series of cut stones for the plaza. "I have never thought of myself as a stone carver," he writes. "I didn't want to remove material or change the essential nature." Yet he has not only cut and placed stones to clutter the plaza. He, like Harries, has decided his objects would look better bronzed. The effect, if one takes the model as an indicator of things to come, is terribly pretentious...