Word: lawlessness
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...groups in retaliation for the expression of controversial ideas. Abrams represented the museum as it fought to forestall Giuliani’s funding cuts, and federal courts ruled against the mayor. “I still believe that Giuliani knew perfectly well that First Amendment law made his conduct lawless,” Abrams writes. “He was, after all, a graduate of Harvard Law School,” Abrams notes on page 224. This is not true: Giuliani earned his J.D. from New York University in 1968. Yet Abrams’ error here is a rare deviation...
In1994,KelliLawless, 24, of O'Fallon, Mo., waited for test results she hoped would solve the mystery of her failing health. For years, she had been plagued by a string of illnesses including sinus infections, pneumonia and two bouts of shingles, but her doctor had never performed a test that would have been routine for someone else with those symptoms. "He said that people like me--a white, middle-class, non-drug-using, college-educated woman in Iowa-- didn't get HIV/AIDS." Alas, in Lawless's case, he was mistaken. Testing showed that she was positive...
...Lawless ultimately traced her infection to someone she had dated during college who had contracted the virus through a blood transfusion. Despite her uncertain future, she and her boyfriend of five years, Jim Hughes, who remained uninfected, decided to marry. But starting a family was not part of the plan for the couple, who practiced safe sex. "I thought HIV was a death sentence, and we weren't even sure I'd make it to the wedding the next year, let alone have children...
...owes his fame to his self-lionizing, hard-drinking ways as much as he does to his infiltration of the lawless Hell’s Angels or his chronicling of Nixon’s campaign...
Puamau cinavilakeba got married last May. A week later, he kissed his wife goodbye and set off on the long trip from home, in suburban Suva, to his new job, in Mosul, Iraq. Escorting convoys of trucks and oil tankers along lawless roads isn't the safest work in the world. But, back home for a month's leave, Cinavilakeba is already planning his return. "It's exciting," he says with a grin. "And with our military background" - he and his fellow security guards are all former soldiers - "the threat to our lives is not that big." The rewards, however...