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...schlocky guy around ripping off Elvis and putting his face on edible underwear and all kinds of things that demean the long-term value of what we've got." One of these cases went all the way to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which in an oft-cited landmark 1991 case involving a British retailer named Elvisly Yours--yes, they were selling edible Elvis panties--upheld the Tennessee...
Brennan's warm, lovable personality--he had no hint of pretension and treated the court's janitors with as much respect as he did his fellow Justices--enabled him to build bridges across ideological chasms that produced not only landmark decisions but stepping-stones to future developments in every major area of law as well. Not every Brennan opinion will live forever, any more than he could. But the Brennan legacy is immortal...
...bloody action in which 40 of Ranariddh's supporters were killed in custody, according to the U.N. Human Rights Center. For Hun Sen, the push is a move to legitimize his government in the face of his violent overthrow that made a shambles of the UN's landmark 1992 power sharing agreement that ended decades of civil war. "I would like to appeal to all members of parliament to return as soon as possible to take part in selecting the new first prime minister," Hun Sen said. "I would like to firmly assure security, safety and freedom for them...
When Cambridge Savings Bank originally proposed to tear down Read Block in 1994, the CHC began a landmark study on the three properties in the center of Harvard Square, a process which prevented all construction work on the buildings and threatened its future development...
...landmark report in last week's issue of the journal Cell suggests that whatever else Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did, they probably did not make love. In a tour de force experiment that involved extracting a microscopic strand of ancient DNA from the arm bone of a Neanderthal skeleton, a team led by Dr. Svante Paabo of the University of Munich showed that the two species have almost nothing in common, genetically speaking...