Word: meaning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...came before a judge nine months later, Thomas was ready to mount a powerful and eloquent defense, having completed most of his first year at the University of Virginia law school. "Fortunately," he says, "the judge dismissed my case. But not without proclaiming that 'this doesn't mean the court thinks there is anything noble about the press.' " Ignoring that wisdom, Thomas came to TIME shortly after receiving his J.D. in 1977, joining Reporter-Researcher Raissa Silverman in the magazine's Law section. This fall Thomas will move to TIME'S Washington bureau to cover...
Laws that spew from legislatures at the rate of over 100,000 a year inevitably mean more lawsuits. Too many lawyers use their skills to drag out cases. The object may be to wear down a less well financed opponent, or put off an unfavorable judgment. Sometimes it is simply a matter of greed, of contriving any excuse to keep fees rolling in. Favorite devices include making endless pretrial motions on one or another point of procedure, obtaining postponements (continuances) from the court, requesting huge amounts of information from the other side in the pretrial discovery process, or just burying...
...receptions for parents in the Harvard Union, which they will undoubtedly want to attend. Parents go for that kind of thing; they love walking around Harvard Yard and babbling over lukewarm coffee about how classy it all is--down to the elite roaches in your bathroom sink. They really mean it when they say it's your school; they think you own it. "Your library is so magnificent!" they squeal. Or, "It says in the paper that a Harvard professor just testified at a Congressional hearing. Aren't you proud?" To which one replies "shift no--he forgot everything...
...dying. I looked out the window and saw that it was night. When I looked again, it was day. I called the phone company, and they said it was day. Then I looked a little closer and noticed a construction crew working out on the street. With mean jackhammers and hard, old faces, they penetrated concrete and dredged up sludge. Scrubby, spotless students passed them by with remarkable direction and oblivious, vacant expressions. They continued like a stream of mosaic colors, and the noise became louder; orange cement mixers whirling and turning and the tools spitting out their dense, metallic...
This year the Confi Guide has devoted a special section to the Core Curriculum--its history, its requirements, its courses, and what it will really mean to your education at Harvard. It's the kind of information you won't be receiving from the University...