Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high-level observer said last week that there are still "differences" between Harvard and Radcliffe on a host of important issues, including Radcliffe's finances and legal obligations, adding that no joint announcement is imminent...
...Harvard women's hockey team's 4-2 win against the UNH Wildcats, 11 penalties were called in the game--six against Harvard, and five against UNH. However, the referees held their whistles for many other not-so-legal situations...
...letter saying they would never convict, no matter what the evidence. Daschle buried the idea, but not before Byrd took to the well of the Senate to accuse the White House of jury tampering. When Daschle, who has denounced Clinton's behavior as well as the White House legal team's hairsplitting, joined Lott in fashioning a blueprint for the proceedings that was ratified by a unanimous Senate vote, Clinton was miffed, wishing instead that Daschle had led the kind of rock throwing that had so benefited the President in the House. "The President thought it was a major stab...
...concert that raises money for and awareness about human-rights issues in Tibet. Last week Beastie Boys, along with the hip-hop-charged hard-rock band Rage Against the Machine and the progressive rap duo Black Star, staged a controversial concert in New Jersey to raise money for the legal fees of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black inmate on death row for killing a police officer. Says Beastie Boy Adam Yauch: "There's a tremendous amount of evidence that he didn't do it and he was a scapegoat...
...DUBIOUS LEGAL TACTICS Then: House managers hired spies to go through the garbage at the defense team's hotel Now: House managers had pre-deposition confab with Monica at the Renaissance Hotel...