Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stick by his "I'm playing" pledge. Forget about the indictment. Forget about fact that he has nothing left to prove, that he might be the greatest hitter of all time, in spite of the steroid allegations. And that he's made more than enough money to pay his legal bills. No, Bonds knows that if he just stepped aside and fought his trial, too many people, like commissioner Bud Selig, would rejoice. So he'll try to stay...
Take Kenya. The sub-Saharan nation ranks abysmally on many basic measures, such as favoritism in decisions of government officials (115th) and business impact of malaria (113th), but on some more sophisticated metrics it does quite well--eighth for legal rights tied to the financial markets and 31st for quality of scientific-research institutions. Skipping the basics while nailing the more complicated stuff is a counterintuitive yet increasingly widespread trend--think of the places in Africa that leaped from no phones to cell phones, bypassing landlines--but whether a country can excel in the long run without a more stable...
...LEGAL NOTE...
...proves I was horribly wrong. Clocking in at more than 45 minutes, “The Black and White Album” is a distinct departure from the band’s three previous albums, none of which broke the 30-minute mark. Whereas “Barely Legal,” “Veni Vidi Vicious,” and “Tyrannosaurus Hives” featured only five songs over the three-minute mark between them, “The Black and White Album” has 10 of them. The Hives simply don?...
...always been the loyal, stoic princess tirelessly fulfilling her royal duties, while he, an eccentrically dressed dandy, has become a regular presence at New York fashion shows. But whatever their differences, and although the Palace stressed that the separation was a "temporary cessation of their marriage" and had no legal implications, the separation is nonetheless an uncharacteristic admission of problems within the family. In fact, it is the first separation in the history of the Spanish royals...