Word: lawyering
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...received court permission on Monday to use a gym in her apartment complex and participate in church services in Natick, Mass. “She is allowed now to go to Mass one day a week on Saturdays,” said Robert A. George, Tang’s lawyer. “She is allowed to exercise. Everything we’ve asked for has been received. That’s not to say that is enough. Right now I’m satisfied with the fact that she’s not incarcerated.” Tang...
Shortly before her own tragic death in December, Bhutto was negotiating an American-backed deal with President Pervez Musharraf to allow her to become prime minister again. The lawyer-led, pro-democracy movement in Pakistan saw this as a Faustian pact with a hated dictator...
...Boston chapter of Mormons for Equality and Social Justice (MESJ) has found instead that Barack Obama embodies the values of faith put in action and will best lead our country to become more fair and prosperous. We trust his experience as a community organizer, civil rights lawyer, and legislator as proof that he will promote peace, equality, and justice in whatever situation he finds himself. We pray that he will find himself in the White House...
...troublesome trend in collegiate journalism—namely, that criticism of authority is met with censorship. The debacle began when the newspaper critiqued the student government for holding meetings that were closed to the press—a violation of a state open meetings law, according to a lawyer that that paper retained. Though the editors’ charge that the funding revocation was a response to their critical coverage, the student government president, Ron Chicken, claimed that the paper had violated SGA by-laws by hiring an attorney. There should be no question that freezing funds is tantamount...
...Rock The Vote Rock the Vote, popularized by MTV's 1996 "Choose or Lose initiative," began in 1989 with founder Jeff Ayeroff's first campaign, "Censorship is UnAmerican." Ayeroff, then an entertainment lawyer, wanted to protest what he perceived to be a wave of attacks on art and freedom of speech. (He would later work for Virgin Records and Time Warner, TIME's parent company). With numerous music and Hollywood contacts, Ayeroff was able to make voting look hip. By 2001, the organization had registered more than a million young voters. A number of celebrities have appeared...