Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Attorney Judith L. Lindahl told Zobel that the mother of the children has a number of psychological problems, including a split personality, and asked the court to obtain the mother's mental health history so that her reliability as a witness could be questioned...
...help Morris, the Dallas district attorney's office turned over the dusty records from Adams' trial. What Morris found in the boxes was more intriguing than Dr. Death: evidence of a prosecution willing to bend, if not break, the guarantees of a fair trial in its efforts to obtain a conviction. Morris abandoned his original project in order to tell Adams' story in The Thin Blue Line, which won two major film awards and helped Adams finally win his freedom...
...reveal frankly pagan symbols and statues. A black Nigerian priest protested at the time, "You are taking us back from whence we came -- paganism." But prominent Nigerian artist Bruce Onobrakpeya notes that the Yorubas "worship God through the spirit Orisha, who will pray to God for them and obtain the blessings they desire -- not so very different from parishioners kneeling before a statue of the Virgin." The decorations remained...
...formed 13 years ago to address the cultural, educational, political and social needs of Asian Americans on campus: culturally, to celebrate the richness of our heritage; educationally, to discover our identities; politically, to obtain the rights to which we are entitled as human beings and as minorities are being denied; socially, to develop ties with those with whom we share commonalities. Our focus is the Asian American community, and we have and always will encourage all Harvard-Radcliffe students to explore its many facets...
...malicious insiders. "We have put protective mechanisms into systems that are very, very closely held so that very few people know something is keeping track," says Donald Latham. Walker and others now in the private sector are also working to develop "trusted systems" designed to make sure that users obtain only information they are entitled to see and do only things they are authorized...