Word: intentionally
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Higher Learning is the desperately confused response to all these pressures. It finds on a single college campus every imaginable youthful type: a track star on an athletic scholarship (Omar Epps), who is convinced he is being exploited; his very smart, very pretty girlfriend (Tyra Banks), who is coolly intent on using the system to her advantage; a young white woman (Kristy Swanson), victimized by date rape, tempted by lesbianism, ultimately redeemed and betrayed by her idealistic political activism; a socially maladroit loner (Michael Rapaport), who finds a dank spiritual home with the local neo- Nazis. The rapper Ice Cube...
Prior crimes can be used, however, to show motive, intent or planning. More recently the law has carved out a further exception for sexual assault, spousal murder and child molestation by bringing forward evidence that a pattern of past offenses in those areas is an especially good indicator of guilt. That reasoning exasperates some legal thinkers. "You can't infer murder from abuse," insists Columbia University law professor George Fletcher. "Homicide may imply abuse, but abuse does not imply homicide." All the same, the crime bill that was recently passed by Congress allows prior behavior to be used as evidence...
...major victory for the prosecution, Judge Lance Ito ruled that today that the jury will be allowed to hear some of theevidence of alleged domestic violence in O.J. Simpson's past. Ito said that the evidence can be presented to prove motive and intent. The jury will now get to hear the highly publicized 911 emergency call made by Nicole Simpson on New Year's Day in 1989, which led to criminal charges against O.J., and will be told about a 1985 baseball bat attack that damaged...
...work by Seymour-Smith belongs to that peculiar subspecies of biography in which the author seems less intent on etching a life than on erasing previous lives: he is obsessed with discrediting earlier biographies. Hardy in recent years has been the subject of two substantial portraits, Michael Millgate's and Robert Gittings', both of which bathe him in a cold, harsh light. Seymour-Smith strives "to see how much gaiety and good humor coexisted in Hardy, with the too celebrated gloom." That's a noble-sounding goal, and yet the paradoxical result is dispiriting: a spiteful-seeming attempt to prove...
...person may disturb an individual engaged in the lawful taking of an animal with the intent to dissaude the individual or otherwise prevent the taking of the animal." --A Montana law recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court designed to protect hunters from animal rights activists. Quoted in yesterday's New York Times...