Word: crackly
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...course, just because Kendall is at the table doesn't mean the President is ready to eat. Starr is sure to find his protracted negotiations with William Ginsburg were a walk through the stacks compared to Kendall, a crack attorney who is likely to fight over every clause and phrase of any deal. But it may be that our long national episode of "Jerry Springer" is nearing the end -- of its grand jury phase, at least...
Alvarado concedes that "occasionally" someone with a good fake may make it past the I.D. checker at the door, but maintains that, "we have a pretty serious carding policy, most people don't even try." I ask him whether there was more pressure from the police to crack down in the wake of Scott Krueger's death, but if he has an opinion on the matter, he's not sharing it with me. He is willing to divulge that the Cambridge License Commission has been in a bunch of times this year. Still, he can't remember them having swept...
...British au pair return to England with a sentence of time served? Or should Judge Hiller Zobel's decision to impose a manslaughter verdict be overturned, and Woodward sent back to jail for the murder of baby Matthew Eappen? To solve that question, the justices have to crack a whole host of conundrums: Did the prosecution prejudice the trial by withholding details about Matthew's skull fracture, for example? Don't hold your breath for the answer -- the court has 130 days to make up its mind...
JAKARTA: Indonesia's legislature handed President Suharto "broad new powers" Monday to crack down on protests over the economic crisis, which is made worse by fear that the aging strongman plans to defy IMF conditions for a bailout. Those powers are reported to include the right to dissolve parliament and ban opposition parties. Since Suharto already controls parliament, the military and even those opposition parties that he allows to operate, the legislature clearly had some difficulty in coming up with any powers that Suharto hadn't already claimed...
Cochran's speech was followed by commentaryfrom Professor of Law Randall Kennedy. Kennedyalso spoke on the failings and potential forjustice in the American legal system, focusingheavily on the recent controversy surrounding thedisparity between sentences for crack possessionand cocaine possession...