Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are countless prime time shows about lawyers, including the award-winning L.A. Law. There are best-selling novels (The Firm), movies (Presumed Innocent), fake TV trials (Divorce Court) and real TV trails (the William Kennedy Smith rape case). There's even Court TV, A 24-hour cable channel devoted...
If Quayle has no malign racial-political intent, he might point out, when discussing the miseries of families, that, for example, Eastern prep schools are filled with children packed off to get them away from divorce, incest, alcoholism, child abuse, wife battering and other horrors at home. The willingness to...
"What the Supreme Court is saying now is states have got remarkably better at guaranteeing certain liberties," says Ira Robbins, a habeas corpus specialist at Washington's American University law school. In the state courthouses, where the trials are held, however, the guarantee of competent counsel looks rather threadbare. Some...
Almost all who spoke--both on the panel and in the audience--agreed that the Law School was not a pleasant place to be during this time of turmoil. "I don't like coming to work," said Professor of Law Todd D. Rakoff. "It seems to me out of control...
As campaign coverage becomes saturated with questions of personal morality (a.k.a. "character"), candidates respond with by now ritualized pledges of undying fealty to family and, above all, to "family values." What is curious about these paeans to family, however, is that they come at a time when Americans seem intent...