Word: notionalism
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...Enron's former accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, as well as former Wall Street trader Frank Quattrone, have successfully appealed jury instructions based on the notion of willful blindness. When Quattrone's conviction was overturned two months ago, Skilling attorney Daniel Petrocelli told TIME, "I think it's a reminder of how dangerous it is that prosecutors can overreact in putting businesses on trial." In Andersen's case, the U.S. Supreme Court voided a witness-tampering conviction of the accounting firm by ruling that the trial's jury was wrongly told it could convict the firm for shredding documents during...
...knew it was magic, those of us who thumbed a ride on the Dylan astro-rocket as it blasted out of Greenwich Village in 1961-62. Even then we knew that he was changing everything. First he updated Woody Guthrie's notion of the topical folk song and made it his own, creating anthems that were the sound track to the early-'60s Civil Rights movement. Then he smartly ransacked the tropes of every hip lyricist from Bertolt Brecht to the Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Then adapted his righteous belligerence to the standard love song, upending...
...Bush offered a lukewarm endorsement, suggesting that Olmert's plan "could lead to a two-state solution," he made clear that the U.S. preference is for that goal to be reached via negotiations. And the two sides appear to have agreed to repackage the proposals to avoid using the notion of a permanent border...
...Here is another wayward film with huge ambitions and, as yet, no notion of taming them...
...more than $1.5 billion, and legal analysts surmise that if the couple, who have a 2-year-old daughter, end up in divorce, Mills could walk away with more than $350 million. (Mills offered to sign a prenuptial agreement before the wedding in 2002, but McCartney famously dismissed the notion, calling it unromantic.) As for the future ex--Mrs. Norman, with whom the golfer has two grown children, her windfall could add up to a hefty $150 million. Her husband's holdings include a winery, a sportswear line, a golf-course-design firm and a really big boat...