Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, these recycled parents are often forced to negotiate an unfamiliar bureaucracy, seeking welfare assistance or legal custody, enrolling kids in school or getting medical care. "The underlying problem is that they don't understand what their rights are and nobody can tell them," says Gerard Wallace, director of the Grandparent Caregiver Law Center at the Brookdale Center on Aging in New York. There is little in law books to help; attorneys and social workers are often unsure how existing laws apply...
...inquiry initiated by his handpicked successor, President B. J. Habibie. The official probe focused exclusively on Suharto?s charities, and a Habibie aide told the BBC that Suharto could not be prosecuted over the numerous decrees he passed benefiting his family over the national economy because those were made legal by the fact that they?d been passed by his cabinet and the legislature he controlled...
...refused to abate ?- despite an appellate court?s clear wishes that he do so ?- the 12-year sentence he had given Fortier a year ago. Ordered by the appeals court to use new, lowered sentencing guidelines (involuntary manslaughter instead of first-degree murder), Bebber stuck by his guns. TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen can see why. "It?s unusual for a judge to butt heads with an appeals court and go so far above the guidelines," he says. "But clearly this was a crime far and above the usual...
...what do these three things--unity, overcoming adversity, work ethic--combine to do? They instill a fighting mentality in the team and individual athlete. It makes someone want to win so fervently that he or she is willing to do anything (anything legal, of course...
...largest pro-life organization, Citizens for Life, is protesting Marshall's nomination on the grounds that she once sat on the board of Crittenton Hastings House, a home for unwed mothers that provides abortions. Marshall's position on abortion shouldn't be an issue (nevermind that abortion is still legal in this country); her ability to judge cases fairly should be. And by all accounts, her judicial record is unblemished, even stellar. Its an instance of a false mountain made out of an imaginary molehill. She should be confirmed...