Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointed the prosecutor, law officer (judge) and veniremen for the court-martial board (jury); he even selected the defense counsel, though the accused could ask for another one. Thus the code did not eliminate the phenomenon known as "command control." Looking back on his experience as a Marine legal officer during the Korean War, Boston Trial Lawyer Joseph Oteri describes the C.O.'s influence on military courts this way: "The word always filtered down that the Old Man wanted such and such to happen. And, miracle of miracles, it always did." Within this system, a career officer assigned...
...dowell. And then there's Soames, Winifred's brother, who looks like a cross between Abraham Lincoln and a character from Dark Shadows. Soames, done to a turn by Eric Porter, is a dour sort, with never a thought of sex in his legal mind. Ah, but tune in the next week, when Soames meets Irene, portrayed by Nyree Dawn Porter...
...underlying rationale. Kittenish phrases crop up-"for some unfathomable reason known only to lawyers and judges"-which would be acceptable enough if the fathoms of the law were not clearly the business of a book about a trial and the functioning, or malfunctioning, of the legal system...
Picking tritons is illegal, but the law can't be policed. There are other, quite legal, ways in which we are steadily bringing about the end of the world. Just for an example, there's the Greenhouse Effect gone wild. Our heavy industry, oil heat, and combustion in general are putting too much CO2 into our air. CO2 in our atmosphere absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the sun (reflected off the earth) as heat. This is called the Greenhouse Effect. It was important in the evolution of the earth into a life-supporting planet. The world is getting hotter and hotter...
...accordance with the Committee's decision, the University has offered the services of its legal counsel, Ropes and Gray of Boston, to Center employees who were injured or shoved during the attack...