Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kurdish guerrilla leader's trial entered its second day with Ocalan urging his supporters to lay down their arms and warning of a bloodbath if he's executed. Ocalan's comments confirm suggestions that he is bargaining for his life in court rather than facing a trial in the sense that any of Turkey's NATO allies might use the term. Ocalan's lawyers complain that they've had no unfettered access to their client, and human rights organizations have questioned the credentials of a court in which one of the judges is a military appointee. Although the charges against...
...plan to continue at this pace. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who factors longevity into his lifetime plan." He probably thought he meant that. But even earlier, as a busy lawyer who had never written before, he used the time while waiting for his court cases to be called to write the 1987 Judd Nelson movie, From...
SHAQUILLE O'NEILL Fined for not leaving court in a "timely fashion." Hey, they never slap Rehnquist with that...
Wisdom was guided by a vision of color-neutral society, but he knew that in order to remedy centuries of discrimination, the court couldn't be color-blind. As the father of affirmative action, he understood that remedying segregation required "the organized undoing" of its effects...
...CHARGES If you have a gripe with American Express, don't expect to make your case in court. Starting next month, the company can bring customer disputes to arbitration, which, it says, is the most efficient way to settle claims. This will also help the company avoid juries. BankOne and Bank of America have similar rules for Visa and MasterCard, but Citibank does...