Word: ombudsman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organized-crime law on the books, allowing wiretapping and seizure of criminal property. And last month Zedillo proposed stringent new anticrime measures that make it easier to fire bad cops. But in an interview last week with TIME, Attorney General Jorge Madrazo Cuellar, a former human-rights ombudsman with little prosecutorial experience, conceded that "Mexico needs a new culture of legality." He plans to announce sweeping new provisions for international participation in the recruiting and training of all Mexican federal police, not just elite antidrug cops. But Madrazo's immediate concern is showing the terrified peasants of Chiapas that their...
...Americans truly believe they believe in free speech," says Paul McMasters, the forum's First Amendment ombudsman. But when it comes to "the speech of the radical, the rascal, even the revolting, we become unsure." Oh, and a full one-third believe newspapers have too much freedom, and would stop them printing important government documents such as the Pentagon Papers. Heaven only knows what they think of new-media journalists...
...attained divinity rather than having always possessed it responded by stressing Jesus' eternal godliness and pointedly awarding Mary the appellation "God bearer." The dramatic title pulled her center stage; at the same time, the new emphasis on Jesus' less knowable side caused his role as a kind of ombudsman for humanity to shift somewhat onto his mother's reassuringly human shoulders. Mary as intercessor percolated for several centuries in the Eastern church before exploding in the medieval West. There, fueled as much by folk devotion as by church leaders, her cult eventually can be said to have run wild ("Mary...
...embezzled the money long ago or, by making withdrawals or deposits, have fended off investigators looking at dormant accounts. Ten years after an account is closed, banks destroy the records. "I'm sure we will not find much for the heirs of the Holocaust," says Switzerland's independent bank ombudsman Hanspeter Hani, "but I'm sure we will get some results...
...entire paper, interviewing Crimson executives and the editors of other papers. Still, you were baffled. "What really is an Ombudsperson?" you wondered. You rushed to the dictionary to uncover this SAT word long forgotten. There you were shocked to find only a listing for an obviously archaic word, ombudsman. You were disgusted. Noah Webster must have been a sexist...