Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they treat the Ku Klux Klan flippantly. I only hope it wasn't as flippantly as Sofen laughs off the Union army's wartime atrocities. The most infamous case involved Union Gen. John B. Turchin who looted, plundered, raped and ravaged Athens, Ala., during the war. When he was court-martialled, he received a presidential pardon and was then promoted by Lincoln, sending a clear message that atrocities were not only acceptable, but encouraged...
MacLeish said the 1997 lawsuit, in which he and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz argued a case in court for a week before reaching a settlement, involved a handicapped student...
...they treat the Ku Klux Klan flippantly. I only hope it wasn't as flippantly as Sofen laughs off the Union army's wartime atrocities. The most infamous case involved Union Gen. John B. Turchin who looted, plundered, raped and ravaged Athens, Ala., during the war. When he was court-martialled, he received a presidential pardon and was then promoted by Lincoln, sending a clear message that atrocities were not only acceptable, but encouraged...
Harvard's administrative board provides students with few of the legal protections provided by courts--such as the right to cross examine accusers and to be represented by counsel. But while many call the system unjust, its standards have proven difficult to challenge in court...
...case of Coveney v. President and Trustees of the College of Holy Cross, the court declared that it would not overturn school decisions "if school officials act in good faith and on reasonable grounds...