Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Detective Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach), Law & Order I would read them their Carmen Miranda rights: "You have the right to wear a big floppy hat piled with fruit. You have the right to wear platform heels. You have the right to say 'Chick-a-BOOM, Chick-a-BOOM' in a court of law...
...year-old acquaintance of Klebold's and Harris' who bought Dylan's semiautomatic Tec-9. With their suicide pact, Harris and Klebold had cheated their victims of a day in court, so this hearing might be the only chance for the families to describe in a court of law what they've been through. Representatives from nine families spoke, and the stories of suffering were so wrenching that several people had to leave the courtroom and a clerk had to get three extra boxes of tissues. When Manes was finally escorted out of the courtroom in handcuffs, sentenced...
This tough-love approach to the homeless is a relatively recent phenomenon. Back in the 1980s, when Americans rated the issue an urgent priority, Congress passed a landmark law to give homeless people a variety of housing, health-care and job programs. In 1986 an outpouring of almost 6 million people locked hands to form a 4,152-mile human chain, Hands Across America, to raise some $15 million for the cause. Popular concern about the homeless eased in recent years as the economy boomed, but the stubborn visibility of the problem--coupled with high-profile incidents like the warehouse...
...Teamsters are about to file a civil suit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act - a law often used in the past by the government to combat mob influence in labor. One target of the suit: Teamster ex-president Ron Carey, ejected from the union in 1997 after a finding that his 1996 run for the top job was tainted by campaign-finance abuses...
...role of Dickie Greenleaf lets Law be charming and cruel: he wears the part like a fine, sleek suit, just crumpled enough to seem lived-in. Even in one of those absurd '50s hats that wanna-beatniks had to sport, Law comes across as a little bit perfect, and a little bit vile. You can see why Tom gets all hot around the collar for Dickie's lifestyle, even if it comes with Gwyneth Paltrow as an accessory too sweetie-pie elegant for its own good. Of course, Mr. Ripley doesn't last too long as Dickie...