Word: courtroom
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...grandchildren--and the same spouses. All wasn't sweetness in the family: doors were slammed, tears shed, dreams thwarted. With her energy and brains, my mother might have run General Motors. Instead she ran us, and felt there was no greater happiness. As we race from boardroom to courtroom, soccer practice to PTA, with hardly a moment to savor any of it, the thought occurs to us that she may have been right...
Addressing a full courtroom at the Law School on Friday, a panel including two self-described "former homosexuals" urged gays and lesbians to devote themselves to Jesus, "reject homosexual desires and embrace their natural heterosexual identity...
...been convicted of harassing and threatening to kill an ex-boyfriend, was permitted to remain shielded in anonymity while the intimate details of Marv's personal life were plastered across the headlines. It is certainly a noble goal to protect the victims of sexual assault from mistreatment in the courtroom, but why should Marv's past conduct have been subject to the closest scrutiny, while Perhach's character history have remained off-limits? Perhach is not a minor, and she admits that the alleged assault occurred in the context of a consentual encounter. Neither of these facts excuses an assault...
...service that hundreds of Harvard students will attend this evening is called Kol Nidre, or "All Our Vows." It is one of the most effective and compelling legal fictions of all time. In this ceremony, which is only performed once a year, the synagogue is converted into a courtroom. Torah scrolls are brought out before the congregation, and three people--usually the person leading the service plus two others--stand together at the front of the room to comprise a court of law. With court in session, the person leading the service recites three times, in a melody at least...
MIAMI: The husband-and-wife legal team of Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt were the big winners Friday, as Big Tobacco settled its first-ever courtroom battle over secondhand smoke. The industry paid the plaintiffs? legal costs, and gave $300 million to bankroll a foundation that will research their illnesses...