Word: legality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...virtually everyone agrees that Podesta, 49, possesses a rare skill at scandal management. He is a lawyer with a fine ear for how things will play politically, which gives him an entree with the two main factions (the legal team and the spinners) that have riven the White House since the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. The lawyer in him can gather the facts; the political hand knows how to spin them...
...words of those mourners lies a hint of current attitudes toward abortion. While the desire of a majority of Americans to keep abortion legal is steadfast, it is also passive and quiet. Before too long, Slepian will join the list of doctors and their assistants killed and then buried in an unmarked media grave. Until an ad began running this week, I had forgotten about nurse Emily Lyons, maimed in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., clinic 10 months ago. The bomb that killed an off-duty police officer tore through the nurse's intestines, shattered her bones and ripped...
...university campuses, Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate examine the effects of campus speech codes--which some universities have adopted in the name of protecting designated groups. They conclude that these policies have had a stifling effect on free expression. As a private institution, Harvard College has greater legal ability to regulate speech and expression than do public universities, but it has resisted adopting strict regulations...
...chair would be requiring a whole bunch of answers as the price for a speedy impeachment inquiry. And the longer some of the queries go unanswered, the worse it looks for the White House -- a fact which was, no doubt, at the back of the minds of the GOP legal team that framed them. For example, question one: "Do you admit or deny that you are the chief law enforcement officer of the United States of America...
...Lords are being asked to overturn a High Court ruling that Pinochet enjoys immunity for crimes allegedly committed as head of state. "The legal issues at stake here have global implications," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The argument being presented is that a crime against humanity cannot enjoy immunity in any circumstances. Setting that precedent would pardon dictators from Idi Amin to Karadzic -- it even would have pardoned Hitler." Meanwhile, France, Switzerland and Sweden are all completing their own extradition requests. Take a number and stand in line...