Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...counted and it will cause tremendous damage to our congressional candidates," Geller said. Meanwhile, the positions of the Obama and Clinton camps clash. She wants the results of the non-primary to stand as is. He refuses to honor that outcome, though he also seems to have legal concerns about a mail-in do-over. If the January results stand, Florida will hand 105 delegates to Clinton and 67 to Obama - though the total needed to clinch the nomination would also rise...
...Catholic thinkers of her generation, has long been at home along the banks of both the Charles and Tiber rivers. Officially installed on Feb. 29 as the new American Ambassador to the Holy See, she is a longtime Harvard Law professor, author and international expert on human rights and legal theory. But her resume also includes stints as a visiting lecturer at the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome and three years as the President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, the first woman to hold such a prestigious academic post at the Vatican...
...website called Hulu could do to television what iTunes did to music. That's because Hulu frees TV shows from their networks and instead lets viewers watch legal versions of programs à la carte, whenever they choose - for free...
...Georgia has turned its attention north to the state boundary it says it never ratified and the billions of gallons of water just out of reach on the other side. "Georgia not only has legal and historical claim to the Tennessee River, but it has an ecological one because all of Northwest Georgia drains into the Tennessee River," Georgia State Sen. David Shafer told the Chattanooga Times-Free Press...
...What they're proposing, even if they could get over the legal hurdles, would amount to the largest public works project in the history of the Southeast," says Littlefield. "A wildly conservative estimate would put the cost at about $200 billion. There are simple, far more cost-effective solutions to their problems instead of the Georgia legislature going off on some Don Quixote quest...