Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been criticized for accepting an arranged marriage in 1987 and for doing little to eliminate traditional legal inequities such as the Hudood Laws, which reduce a woman's court testimony to half that of a man's in Pakistan.Crimson File PhotoBENAZIR BHUTTO '73, the controversial former prime minister of Pakistan, spoke yesterday on the role of women and democracy in Islam...
Lowering the legal drinking age will only intensify the problem of high school alcohol abuse and increase the number of fatalities due to drunk driving--the legitimate basis of the federal highway law in the first place. For the sake of the health, welfare and safety of Americans of all ages, leave the drinking...
...jury's decision had confounded legal experts and, it seems, most of public opinion, which had been formed by televised images of a cherubic, well-groomed Woodward calmly testifying from the stand. Her defense team, featuring Barry Scheck, who had been part of O.J. Simpson's "dream team," had been so confident of its case that it had turned down a last-minute offer by the prosecution to include manslaughter as an option to present to the jury. Instead, with Woodward's assent, the defense persuaded the judge that the verdict should be all or nothing--murder or acquittal...
...baby, tossed him on a bed, and "dropped" him on some towels on the bathroom floor. In testimony, she denied making the statements. Woodward was arrested the following day and, shortly after the baby's life-support system was turned off, charged with murdering Matthew by shaking him violently. Legal opinion saw an open-and-shut case, with Woodward the loser...
Hale says the goal of his group is to use legal means to "cleanse our land of the non-white races...