Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years, as Harvard cracked down on partying in the Houses, the clubs picked up the social life slack by creating a late night scene for dancing and drinking, leading to both personal and legal problems for the clubs...
...landed too far away to cause the fires. But, she added, "I did not want those [hot grenades] used. I asked for and received assurances that they were not incendiary." She confessed the news did not help her credibility and promised another probe, most likely overseen by an outside legal expert, into a controversy she thought she had put behind her. "She is not a person who screams or throws things," says a Justice Department official, "but she is doing the functional equivalent of throwing a Ming vase...
...rounds? The FBI wanted to prevent the Davidians from taking refuge in a concrete bunker, but a cold round fired shortly after 6 a.m. bounced off the roof. According to a document at the FBI's legal counsel's office dated February 1996--but that officials say they realized only last week was significant--HRT agents asked to use M651 military rounds because the heat they generate produces a vapor that provides greater penetrating power. A yet unidentified FBI official on the ground authorized the plan but did not report it to Washington. The two M651 rounds ricocheted...
...Ever since his best-selling first novel, Presumed Innocent (1987), Scott Turow has turned out taut legal and psychological thrillers at the rate of one every three years: The Burden of Proof (1990), Pleading Guilty (1993) and The Laws of Our Fathers (1996). If this is 1999, there must be another one on the way, and sure enough, here comes Personal Injuries (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 384 pages; $27). But another Turow, as his constant readers have discovered, does not mean the same story with different names attached for the sake of variety. Turow likes to alter the form as well...
Clinton withdrew the nomination after Guinier's views on the legal rights of minorities generated controversy...