Word: freer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Legal experts disagree on whether last week's ruling will give authorities a freer hand to browbeat suspects. "Many years ago the police became convinced that they don't need violence to get people to confess," says Yale Kamisar, a criminal-law expert at the University of Michigan. But the head-banging style of police interrogation has not disappeared. A dramatic example: the case of Barry Lee Fairchild, a black man with an IQ of 62 sentenced to death for the 1983 murder of a white Air Force nurse in Little Rock. Lawyers for Fairchild, who are pursuing an appeal...
...erected huge choral pillars to frame the action and provide context. In between, he spins out long, shimmering arias whose sinuous lines deny the listener the security of a conventional verse-chorus-verse structure. Once a card carrying minimalist, the composer now weds a sturdy rhythmic pulse with a freer melodic and harmonic idiom that can evoke with equal aplomb a Monteverdi arioso, a Mendelssohn scherzo or Duke of Earl...
...success may be, in fact, another sign that the over-achievers are settling into the mainstream. Of course, Asian Americans will continue to major in math and science in large numbers. But more will do so because they genuinely enjoy the subjects, and others, like Tohoru Masamune, will be freer to choose other paths. "It destabilized my life," he says about his decision to get out of engineering, "but it was an instability that I'm comfortable with." That too is achievement...
...informal atmosphere of the tutorial lends itself to freer discussion, but it also tends to keep the group on its toes. Students are generally well prepared for each session, and are quick to admit they don't know something rather than take a guess...
...spectacle of Gorbachev facing the anger of a hungry nation has led George Bush to decide that he is ready to consider asking Congress to waive the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which bars Moscow from most-favored-nation trading status until freer emigration is allowed. Though Gorbachev has greatly loosened emigration restrictions, the Administration has insisted that the new policy must be written into law before trade limitations can be lifted...