Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel to most legal thrillers. Virtually all are blurbed as the work of the next Turow, which may not be an endorsement, since Turow's plodding prose can be a way not of passing time but doing it. Still, a few lawyer novels pass minimal standards as survival gear. For the next time you're sentenced to 7 to 10 years between planes at O'Hare, here's a sampling of legal thrillers...
...answer, according to Maher, was not. Harvard kept the game close for the first 15 minutes before Stanford's transition game hit high gear and the Cardinal pulled away...
...took place, was lacerated anew last Monday. What started as a peaceful demonstration for the "L.A. 4," still awaiting trial for the Denny beating, degenerated into a melee of brick and bottle throwing that injured 12. This time, however, the L.A.P.D. piled in immediately. Three hundred officers in riot gear made 55 swift arrests, overwhelming the disorder. With both the Denny case and the Rodney King case coming up in February and March, odds are that L.A. police will continue to come down as hard and fast as they did last week. "On a scale of 1 to 10," police...
...noon the lead armored vehicle, with Old Glory waving, shifts into first gear, followed by 76 five-ton trucks, humvees and amphibious light armored vehicles. Belt-fed machine guns, mortars or antitank missile launchers are mounted on each vehicle. Every one of the 700 carries an automatic rifle. Marines pull on heavy desert-camouflage flak jackets and don steel helmets. Ammunition clips snap into place. The men of Team Tiger, the name given to the group of Marines going to Baidoa, are expecting trouble...
...advantage of Aspen is that Ajax, Buttermilk and Snowmass are all run by the same company, the Aspen Skiing Company. Tickets and gear are interchangeable--you can buy a three-day ticket at one place and ski one day at each mountain for no increase in price, if that's what you want...