Word: defenders
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...Still, Republicans have managed to score a few points off Craig. In a testy exchange with South Carolina's Bob Inglis, the White House lawyer got boxed into defending the perjury rap by making the argument that if you don't think you lied about something, it isn't really a lie. "Republicans made Craig defend Clinton a little more than he was prepared to do," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "They succeeded in reminding everyone about the President's evasiveness...
Natalie J.J. Smith, a staff member at Eviction Free Zone (EFZ), a Cambridge community organization that seeks to defend the rights of the city's tenant and immigrant populations said as a matter of principle immigrant parents should have the right to vote in the School Committee elections...
...notoriously unstable. But even if that's true, it doesn't mean Microsoft didn't try to use its leverage to put Java where Sun don't shine, says prosecutor David Boies. Microsoft's argument, says Boies, "is a little bit like saying if somebody shoots you they can defend [themselves] by saying you have cancer...
...maestro of the verbal stiletto, and Bob Barr, the humorless but relentless Republican former prosecutor. The House Judiciary Committee includes some of the most ideological members of each party, politicians more likely to go for the jugular than the essence of a witness's arguments. Starr will have to defend the logic and fairness of his actions in a place where judicial precedents don't count for much. And there will be few rules of decorum to keep lawmakers from cutting him off or shouting him down...
Despite the attack, TIME was upbeat about the effort to defend South Vietnam against communism: "The presence of the Americans symbolized one of the main reasons why South Viet Nam, five years ago a new nation with little life expectancy, is still independent and free and getting stronger all the time--to the growing chagrin of Communists in neighboring North Viet Nam." The two Americans who died in the ambush were the first of some 58,000 to die before the hurried American evacuation of Saigon 16 years later...