Word: offer
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...team had agreed to skip the mental-illness defense during the trial so long as the lawyers could pull it out in the penalty phase to help avoid a death sentence. They planned to show jurors photos of the ripe, shaggy hermit at the time of his arrest and offer a tour of the creepy cabin, which has been trucked in as evidence, all to give jurors an idea of the life-style of the man on trial. Burrell overruled Kaczynski's objections to this plan on the grounds that the lawyers, not the client, should be in control...
...afternoon amid hopes that the opening statements could proceed. Judge Burrell announced that the issue of representation had been resolved; Kaczynski would cooperate with his lawyers. But Kaczynski was not done surprising the court. It seems that San Francisco defense attorney J. Tony Serra had faxed the court an offer to represent Kaczynski for free if he could fire his attorneys. In a phone call just before court reconvened, Serra told Kaczynski he would not use a mental-illness defense. "I would like to be represented by him," Kaczynski announced to the stunned audience. Judge Burrell denied the motion...
...getting serious. In response to a September letter signed by 21 Republican members of Congress, the Treasury Department has begun looking into the IRS decision to audit Jones and her husband Stephen, an inquiry begun just a few days after they reportedly turned down a $700,000 settlement offer from Clinton's lawyers. At first blush, revenge by audit would seem so heavy-handed and visible a tactic that no one would try it. That was what White House press secretary Mike McCurry meant in September when he said, "We do dumb things from time to time...
...write as a former faculty member of the English department to express my deep disappointment that the University chose not to offer tenure to Associate Professor Jeffrey Masten. Masten's records as a scholar, a teacher and a colleague are extraordinary...
What are we to make of these findings? Are they symptomatic of a pervasive boredom and selfishness? The social scientists cited have little to offer in the way of serious explanation. Assuming these results are linked to broad social causes, but finding none, they blame television, as usual. The argument, which we have heard again and again, is that television, with all its advertising and flashy imagery, has made us materialistic while simultaneously whittling down our attention spans...