Word: legalism
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...often feature organic produce from nearby farms, but not everyone lives near a farmers' market--and most products at the markets aren't organic. "I've been to farmers' markets, and there's people hauling stuff from the truck that they got at a wholesaler," says Joseph Mendelson III, legal director of the Center for Food Safety, a liberal Washington group that supports strong organic standards. Mendelson prefers the "gold standard" of locally grown organics, but he is rather frightening on the subject of nonorganic food, whatever its origin. When I asked him whether I should favor local products...
...Cheryl Lynn Noel, a church-going mother: Shot and killed after grabbing her legal handgun when masked intruders—a SWAT team—stormed into her bedroom in Baltimore. The justification for the assault? Police investigators had found marijuana seeds in the family’s trash...
...since Princess Diana died, and the Windsors are still haunted by her. The royals expected an inquest into her death but thought it would be a quiet affair, presided over by a single judge. On Friday, however, Mohamed Al Fayed, the millionaire owner of Harrod's, won an unprecedented legal battle to have a jury hear the inquests into the 1997 deaths of Princess Diana and his son Dodi Fayed. Al Fayed believes Diana and his son were murdered by British intelligence. Three judges at London's High Court overturned a previous ruling by deputy royal coroner Baroness Elizabeth Butler...
...Harvard Law School banned military recruiters from using the school’s career services office, but the school decided to reverse course when the Pentagon threatened to cut off more than $400 million in federal funds to the University in 2005. Last March, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of the Solomon Amendment—a law which permits the secretary of defense to cut off funding to schools that do not allow recruiters on campus—clearing the way for military recruiters to continue using the Law School’s facilities. If Meehan?...
...Talese considers the device sacrilegious: “I espouse patience in listening, trying to capture what the other person is thinking, trying to see the world from that person’s point of view.” Two other reporters describe the professional and legal safety of having a transcript, should you need it. Multiply these four opinions by the number of other writers in the book and you can sense the difficulty—or, rather, the charming frustration—of this collaborative “guide” to writing. But the true...