Word: insights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faculty, Professor Higginbotham taught a seminar on the role of race in the American legal process. As the centerpiece of the curriculum, we discussed the merits and implications of each of these pending cases. As an amicus curiae on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus, Judge Higginbotham provided invaluable insight about not only the politics behind racial redistricting but also about the important policy implications that the Supreme Court would inevitably address...
Meanwhile, family members and known associates of Nichols' and McVeigh's are being questioned in the hope that such pressure will persuade the suspects to cooperate. Investigators tell TIME they are convinced that Joshua may provide them with insight into his father. For instance, the boy said in an interview on PrimeTime Live last week that his father "started going to gun shows and making little bombs" and in Kansas, showed him how to make and detonate explosives as well. Nichols' brother James and McVeigh's sister Jennifer are being pressed for new leads, as are McVeigh's Army buddy...
What Tyson fails to do is offer us any insight into the boxer's complicated psychology. Tyson's rape of a 19- year-old beauty contestant, the crime for which he has just finished serving three years in prison, is dramatized only briefly at the end of the film. During the course of the story, though, he is depicted as a belligerent suitor who chases young women down dark streets and yet, incongruously, is so shy that he hangs up the phone the first time he calls Robin Givens (Kristen Wilson), his future wife...
...have enormous respect for Kim's insight andintellectual horsepower," said a professor whospoke on condition of anonymity...
Also distracting are the contrived breaks in the action of the film. Throughout the movie, Jade's narrative is broken up by cuts to an interview scene in which supporting characters relate personal stories. While this technique gives insight into these characters' motivations, the limited relevancy of their anecdotes does not make up for the distracting nature of the interruption...