Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attesting to it. She then contended he had trumped up the management excuse--and produced the petition--after he got unjustifiably concerned that she was going to go public with her accusations. Baucus has denied making any such advances and says he wants her to present her case in court under oath. She hasn't decided whether to go further because Senate procedure requires that she first exhaust her administrative remedies on his playing field, where the Senate provides him with counsel...
...made Leakey head of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Then came drama. Leakey quit and helped form an anticorruption opposition party; Moi branded him a neocolonial racist; a state-owned newspaper tied Leakey to the Ku Klux Klan; and progovernment thugs beat him when he attended a colleague's court hearing. "How much of it was deep [hatred] and how much of it was political, who knows?" says Leakey today...
Former Mass. Supreme Court Justice Gets HLS Chair...
Professor of Law Charles Fried traded the bench for the lectern this summer, giving up a seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to return the Harvard Law School's faculty...
...change people's minds," he says. "Neither Gore nor Bradley commands a great deal of personal loyalty in the Congress. Both of them were loners when they were senators." Meanwhile, says Pooley, "it will be interesting to see what else each candidate puts on the table as they court the gay vote," particularly if the race for the Democratic nomination remains as tight...