Word: courtly
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Judge J. Edward Lumbard '22, who was appointed to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1955, died Thursday at his home in Fairfield, Conn...
...This is Giuliani time!"--a reference to the city's tough-talking Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. There would be a good chance that we would never have heard of Louima and that Volpe would still be patrolling his beat in Brooklyn. Instead Volpe, 27, pleaded guilty last week in federal court to an act of police brutality so sadistic that it cracked "the blue wall of silence...
During the lockout, when official practices were illegal, the Pacers were the only team that left homes and families to have practices in a court in some rich guy's house. They taped their own ankles and made irrational demands of one another during drills, just as coach Larry Bird would. Nineteen-year-old rookie Al Harrington lived in teammate Antonio Davis' house, where he had a curfew and chores. This is the Little Team on the Prairie...
...often that a Supreme Court decision prompts an after-school discussion between my fourth-grader and me. But last week the court ruled that schools are obligated to protect students from aggressive sexual harassment, and suddenly my daughter and I were talking jurisprudence. Our interest in the case of Davis v. Monroe County School Board was sparked by the story of the plaintiff, LaShonda Davis, a fifth-grader who was repeatedly groped and propositioned by a boy in her class...
SOUTER VS. SCALIA (1998) The Supreme Court Justices, both graduates of Harvard Law and appointed by Republicans, could hardly be more dissimilar in their life-styles. Financial-disclosure forms released last week highlight the differences between David Souter, 59, a modest resident of Weare, N.H., and Antonin Scalia, 63, a globetrotting crusader for conservatism...