Word: knighting
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That was wishful thinking, say many legal experts. "President Clinton was trying to have his cake and eat it, too," said George Kendall, senior counsel at Holland and Knight and a board member of the Death Penalty Information Center. The reality since 1996, legal analysts say, has been a U.S. Supreme Court that has narrowly interpreted the act, further restraining the ability of federal courts to grant new trials (on June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to give Davis one last hearing). "The bottom line," said Dale Baich, an assistant federal public defender in Arizona, "is that the AEDPA...
...TIME: Bob Knight called the NBA's rule prohibiting high school players from going straight to the NBA "the worst thing that's happened to college basketball since I've been coaching," as it floods schools with players that intend to stay for just a year. Do you agree with...
...number of American applicants to the Nieman Fellowship Program dropped to 91 in 2007, down from 100 last year, according to Nieman foundation curator Robert H. Giles. The decrease in applicants is part of a greater trend observed elsewhere, as Stanford also saw its Knight Fellowship Program applicant pool decrease from 101 to 83 in the last year...
...Knight Fellowship director James R. Bettinger was less willing to chalk the decrease up to a simple ebb and flow of the applicant pool...
Additionally, in a twist that Bettinger attributes to increased advertising capabilities, both the Nieman and Knight fellowships saw a rise in international applicants...