Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Safer is more the way Richard Nixon viewed it. Turning the hideaway into a virtual hideout during the Watergate era, Nixon would spend long hours in his favorite armchair next to Aspen's massive central fireplace, with legal pads on his knee, trying to explain away the crisis...
...crowd chanted: "Kill, Bubba, kill!" But Charles Aaron ("Bubba") Smith, the former defensive left end for the Baltimore Colts, collided with an aluminum yard marker in 1972, suffered a severe knee injury, and was later forced to give up the game. Now, in an unprecedented legal case, Smith, 32, is asking $1.5 million from the N.F.L. in a negligence suit. He claims that officials failed to remove the marker in time when the action flowed toward the sidelines. To help his case, Smith brought in Sportscaster Howard Cosell, who told a Tampa, Fla., courtroom that after his accident Smith...
...practically everybody," Ashley suggests prenuptial contracts, agreements during marriage, separation treaties, post-marriage documents and agreements between lover-roommates of every conceivable gender. A premarriage contract, he suggests, might cover where the couple will live, who pays for what, how many children they will have. Cohabitants especially need legal agreements, he says, because the law has been slow to assist wronged partners in unconventional families...
Should love and affection be superseded by legal formalities? Ashley argues that a sensibly written contract strengthens a relationship by forcing partners to think problems out in advance. One woman, he reports, agreed to stop smoking but became so distraught when she tried it that her fiancé broke off the engagement. In that case, Ashley concludes, the contractual promises helped terminate a shaky match. And, he notes, the written word has coercive power: "There is a tendency to live up to a written promise?or at least to make a real effort to do so?when one might shrug...
...School's East Asian Legal Studies program will study human rights in East Asia under a $375,000 Ford Foundation grant, a program spokesman said yesterday...