Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comfortably inside. Several months ago, Bush said Roe v. Wade will not be overturned until hearts are changed and so we should focus on ways to reduce abortion. Last Monday he retreated further from the strict pro-life agenda, saying he would not insist on a "litmus test" for court nominees...
...Adams House ceremony, held in Randolph Court, was the final Commencement for Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely '60 and his wife Jana, who retired this year after 26 years as Co-Masters...
...story) building (onto the fire department's trampoline) the day after I got back my B- on my political theory mid-term, I reflected that perhaps it might be time to find a new solution to college life. After some deep contemplation (and many sessions with my court-ordered therapist), maybe, just maybe, I've figured it out, a year after my initial attempt...
...passage of a measure backed by such rare bedfellows as the NRA and the ACLU was a loud rejection of both President Clinton, who backed a much-diluted version of the bill, and the Supreme Court, whose rulings have consistently declined to raise the bar for reasonable property seizure. Ultra-liberals like Frank saw it as a civil-rights issue; ultra-conservatives like Barr saw it as a chance to keep government power in check. Both sides were making it clear that in the war on drugs, all is not fair, and yea, there was bipartisan joy in the Judiciary...
Even though Swiss banks finally coughed up $1.25 billion last August in an out-of-court settlement of Holocaust survivors? claims, the country?s image remains badly soiled by such disclosures, which also included accusations that they laundered gold looted by the Nazis. Swiss officials are convinced that such revelations ?- and the stonewalling that came between facts and reparations ?- cost them the 2006 Winter Olympics, which last weekend were awarded to the Italian city of Turin rather than Swiss front-runner Sion. So they?re bargaining with their only chip ?- the secrecy of their banks. In the last few years...