Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Club of Hong Kong has called a meeting of its members for early February to decide whether to take legal action against its former president...
...Managing editor Walter Isaacson met Wilmut at the annual Forstmann Little seminar in Aspen, Colo., last September and engaged him in a lively conversation on the ethics of cloning. "Wilmut expressed his concern that the breakthrough he had wrought would be used by others with no thoughtful moral or legal guidelines," says Isaacson, who promptly recruited Wilmut to write the essay on the subject that appears in this week's issue...
Osama bin Laden: We should fully understand our religion. Fighting is a part of our religion and our Shari'a [an Islamic legal code]. Those who love God and his Prophet and this religion cannot deny that. Whoever denies even a minor tenet of our religion commits the gravest sin in Islam. Those who sympathize with the infidels-such as the PLO in Palestine or the so-called Palestinian Authority--have been trying for tens of years to get back some of their rights. They laid down arms and abandoned what is called violence and tried peaceful bargaining. What...
...wasn't science, he insisted. "Virtually any monkey" could do that work, Watson fumed in the opening salvo of a battle that would rage for months--and which smolders to this day. To patent such abbreviated genetic material, said Watson, was "sheer lunacy" that would entangle genetic research in legal issues and slow it to a crawl. When the battle was over, the NIH had withdrawn the patent proposal and Watson was no longer head of the genome project. Gone too were Venter and his wife and collaborator, Claire Fraser...
...decision to delay the decision on witnesses could still play into Democrats' hands. Unified Democrats would need only six GOP votes to proceed without witnesses -- which leaves Henry Hyde the task of convincing 51 weary jurors that there's more that they need to hear. Meanwhile, the White House legal team bears the schizophrenic burden of planning for the worst while hoping for the best. But it's clearly the Senate's show now, and after nearly morphing into a mad House this week, it had to act its age and take whatever it could agree upon. The White House...