Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beforehand to make sure there is no other money on him. Then you give him some money and he makes the buy, and you strip him afterward to make sure he has no more money." Do it like that, he says, and the buy and subsequent arrest are legal...
...dime, which means you call in a 'shots fired' alarm to 911. Sometimes you even fire your own gun. Then you wait for the shots-fired call to come over the radio, and you respond to your own call. It's all made up, but it makes the raid legal." It's so routine, says Blondie, "that sometimes we'd laugh and say, 'Gee, which story should we use today? How about No. 23?' You get punch drunk in this business...
...Legal maneuver and political maneuver, the dank gloom of the prison into which the Africans are crammed, awaiting their fate, an astonishing evocation of the terrors of the slave ships' notorious Middle Passage--Spielberg permits himself time to explore every aspect of his saga in rich detail. And he grants his actors--among them a warily compassionate Morgan Freeman as a black abolitionist; Matthew McConaughey as a puppyish lawyer growing into an attack dog; Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams, bent with age and crotchets, but finally lending his eloquence to the cause--a similar latitude. It's a shame...
...stepping down from his post only until the charges were settled. His sister Denise DeBartolo York serves as ceo of the Edward J. DeBartolo Corp., a multibillion-dollar real estate empire founded in Youngstown, Ohio, by the pair's father. York immediately distanced herself from her brother's legal troubles and in a less than impassioned jump to his defense declared, "I hope everything works...
...assassination of Iraq's murderous dictator might be rationalized by the biblical injunction of "an eye for an eye," but it would not be the right kind of retaliation at a moment when the world needs a lesson in justified, legal criminal prosecution. Governments have acted ambivalently and timidly in recent "ethnic cleansing" atrocities in Bosnia, Iraq, Africa and elsewhere. Capturing Saddam Hussein and enumerating his evil acts in an international court of law could rekindle lapsed indignation about unconscionable behavior. Saddam's punishment under law, almost certainly a death sentence, would make it clear that moral imperatives supersede...