Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imperfect credibility. To situate yourself amid the interlocking treacheries of the story so far, you might need the sensibilities of Henry James and the skepticism of Henry Adams. Or you might simply arrive at a position in which misgivings about presidential sex don't translate into a lust for legal or even political retribution. This is just about where most people seem to find themselves now, according to follow-up interviews with dozens of people in the TIME/CNN poll...
...Through legal maneuvering, Willey has avoided having to assume her husband's debts. According to information Willey provided her creditors, her children "loan" her a monthly stipend of roughly $4,500, and she pays a considerably below-market rent to her husband's best friend for the home on six acres in which she now lives...
...Sovereignty" was just a $2 word for state-sponsored racism. From the day the commission was spawned by the state legislature in 1956 until its defunding in 1973, its secrecy-cloaked, taxpayer-financed job was to maintain segregation at all costs. Last week, after a 21-year legal battle forced open commission records, Mississippians got a fuller picture of just how high those costs rose...
...first insider's account of the workings of the Supreme Court. Written by Edward Lazarus, who was a clerk for former Justice Harry Blackmun, it features frank, behind-the-scenes assessments of the Justices and quotes from E-mail sent over the court's computers. The book discusses legal history and doctrines, but it is the tales out of school that will no doubt attract the most attention. Lazarus repeats accounts that Thurgood Marshall, the court's legendary first black Justice, watched soap operas during the workday, and says he let his law clerks do almost everything but cast...
...only fair and right that a new standard of gender equality not suddenly be proclaimed just as lifeboat seats were being handed out. That deference--a somewhat more urgent variant of giving up your seat on the bus to a woman--complemented and perhaps compensated for the legal and social constraints placed on women at the time...