Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Herzfeld's involvement in a recent controversy at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania has taken him from the relative tranquility of his scholarly work into the center of a legal struggle which he says "represents a threat to the institution of tenure...
...other issue is that of reconciliation with the Aborigines. Australia was unusual in that when European occupied the continent in the wake of the founding of the penal colony of New South Wales in 1788, it was regarded, in legal terms, as being "terra nullius," that is to say, uninhabited. Thus the Aborigines were not deemed to have any claims to native land title, nor was there felt to be any need, as in North America and New Zealand, to negotiate treaties with the native inhabitants. Legally, Aborigines were invisible; dispossession could proceed without even the formalities of legal process...
...Both the New York Times and Fox News are reporting Jones? firm intentions to climb back up that legal mountain -- a road that would give the hardiest presidential accuser pause for thought. ?Do I want two more years of this?? Jones is reported to have asked friends. Now it?s a rhetorical question. Whether the Rutherford Institute can pay for two more years of it when they?re already hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket from round one is another matter...
...also should remember that Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig was appointed by Federal District Court Judge Thomas P. Jackson to serve as a special master on technical aspects of the current lawsuit. From Microsoft's vociferous legal protests, we know they don't count him as an avid supporter. Though a higher court suspended Lessig's involvement until another hearing later this month. Still, it seems that for such an important issue that will be affecting all of our lives, the volume of debate over Microsoft on campus keeps getting softer while the steady "ka-ching" of Microsoft money flowing...
...Egypt the strategy of these relative moderates is for successive waves of activists to infiltrate key institutions--such as the legal and health-care professions, the education system, the media--until the secular system peels away and a truly Islamic order emerges. Among the increasing numbers of ordinary Muslims frustrated by unemployment and political repression, the fundamentalists' message has a striking appeal: citizens can change their lives for the better by doing nothing more than harnessing their traditional faith in Allah...