Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following the Supreme Court's landmark anti-gay ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick, Phillip Bockman wrote in the New York Native, "What you can do--alone? The answer is obvious. You're not alone, and you can't afford to try to be. That closet door--never very secure as protection--is even more dangerous now. You must come out, for own sake and for the sake...
...free time for the rest of the week, Chen concentrated on seeing tourist spots, including the Supreme Court, Library of Congress and museums...
Some thought he would become the commissioner of baseball, others a Supreme Court Justice, but former Senator George Mitchell (D-Maine) chose instead to spend his retirement making peace in Northern Ireland...
...boring? Forget the excitement of the Monica Lewinsky scandal -- Susan McDougal's Whitewater contempt trial went on a wild roller coaster ride on Friday when, of all things, a juror brought an Arkansas criminal law book into the room where the jury was deliberating McDougal's fate. A court clerk snatched it before the jury could consult the book. The judge abruptly halted the proceedings to investigate the possibility of jury tampering, but deciding that no harm had been done he later ordered the deliberations to resume on Monday. "The strange incident provided yet another indication that the jury...
...reviewed after five yearsathat encourage turnover. But there is no set term for Corporation members. They serve until they feel like moving on. They dont seem likely to go in for a facelift anytime soonhrough the good hand of God....it is therefore ordered and enacted by this court...that the said College, in Cambridge in Middlesex, in New England shall be a Corporation, consisting of seven persons, to wit a President, five fellows and a Treasurer...=composed as it was of magistrates and ministers, the Board of Overseers remained the dominant governing board until 1686, when it was temporarily...