Word: defenders
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...College Board was quick to defend the SAT as an fair measure of reasoning skills acquired over the course of students' high school careers...
...obligated to tell the court of his client's guilt. Says Susan Estrich, professor of criminal law at the University of Southern California: "Most lawyers will tell you they encourage their clients to tell them the truth so they won't be blindsided. It's very hard to defend someone who is lying to you." On the other hand, defense lawyers cannot knowingly encourage their clients to lie on the stand without being liable to charges of suborning perjury. And if it is discovered that an attorney on either side leaked the document, that lawyer could be disbarred. Says former...
Simpson is still a hero to many Americans. But I continue to have some questions for him: What was the chase in your Bronco (with the gun, passport and disguise) really about? Also, you spent lots of money to hire some of America's best lawyers to defend you--which you needed to do. You spent lots of money traveling to the Bahamas, Florida and Europe. But why haven't you spent more money to hire America's best private detectives to try to find Ron and Nicole's killer(s)? What are we missing, O.J.? Please be our hero...
...have decreed that the American people no longer care about the "character issue" in electing public officials. In the time since Clinton has taken office, his supporters have had multiple occasions to thank God that such an evolution of the electorate has taken place. They have thus risen to defend this evolution of attitude and have striven to reassure the people of their new-found wisdom. "I don't care how many women he's slept with, as long as I agree with his policies." So goes the now established conventional wisdom...
When one surveys the history of our nation, the White House has been at the center of our finest moments. Men risked their lives to defend it in 1812. During the Cuban Missile crisis men strove to avert nuclear holocaust from within its walls. As soldiers fought for their lives at Khe-Sanh, President Johnson monitored the situation from the White House basement. The greatest minds of the past two hundred years have labored at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in order to ensure that our experiment in self-governance succeeds. Bill Clinton turned the White House into an expensive hotel...