Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leader also known as "the Butcher," the last of the rebel commanders still at large since the death of the fugitive Pol Pot in the jungle last year. But diplomats at the feast were less than pleased. Hun Sen said Ta Mok was to be tried in a Cambodian court, not in the international tribunal the U.N. has been planning for months, and he did not talk about arresting other Khmer Rouge leaders. In fact, Hun Sen admitted to TIME that he was "scared" of putting all the aging leaders on trial at this time...
...independent U.N. jurists presented him with a report on how 20 to 30 top Khmer Rouge leaders could be put on trial in another Asian country. But after two decades of denouncing the "genocidal regime of Pol Pot," Hun Sen is balking. "We have no confidence in an international court of law," he says...
...boss with a reality check, this is it. The antitrust trial is on a six-week hiatus. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson urged the two sides to come up with a settlement in the interim. Intel settled its suit with the FTC last week before the case even went to court, sidestepping the kind of white-hot publicity that has roasted Microsoft. And yet the only word to come out of Redmond is a leaked memo from Microsoft lawyer David Heiner to the executive team. Shunning all evidence to the contrary--including Judge Jackson's stern admonitions and chief prosecutor David...
Prosecuting such crimes is no easy matter. Many companies shy away from reporting incidents for fear of bad publicity or having to divulge their treasured secrets in court. That may be a small price to pay, though. For now, the underhanded tactics "are classics for one reason," says Alan Brill, of investigative firm Kroll Associates. "They still work...
...have a star on her hands? "I had no idea," says June of the little girl she raised in the Astoria section of Queens in New York City. "But I did think it was strange that she could throw the ball all the way from one end of the court to another in 8th grade. And she was so skinny!" Says Vincent Cannizzaro, Holdsclaw's high school coach: "June's backing keeps her on an even keel...