Word: orall
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President Clinton claimed presidential immunity from a sexual-harassment lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones. In legal documents filed in an Arkansas federal court, Clinton denied Jones' charges that he solicited oral sex from her, and he asked that the complaint be dismissed until after he leaves office. Clinton's lawyers said Jones' actions "will do great damage to the institution of the presidency...
Housing Secretary HENRY CISNEROS is being sued by former mistress, Linda Medlar, who says he broke an "oral contract" to pay her $4,000 a month for damages following the exposure of their affair in 1990. Cisneros, who reconciled with his wife, denies a contract but admits giving Medlar "intermittent" $4,000 payments as well as $36,000 as a final settlement. The Secretary told TIME he leased a car for Medlar, gave her a $16,000 down payment on a house and paid her daughter's tennis-camp tuition. Medlar says she received no settlement, no car, no tuition...
...Virginia State verdict that could make sexual orientation less relevant to parental fitness. An appeals court judge returned 24-year-old Sharon Bottoms' 3-year-old son a year after another state judge decided she was an unfit mother because she and her live-in lover engaged in oral sex. The judge in the earlier case called the act a "crime against nature." That ruling sent the child to his maternal grandmother Kay, who now plans an appeal. "I think it's a tragedy . . . to put him back in that environment," Kay Bottoms' lawyer told the press. Gay-rights attorneys...
...yourselves. For starters, numerous references were made to classes on witchcraft, UFOs, etc., which are only two of the 15 courses offered by the committee. After a passing reference to the class on Mexican corridos (which, by the way, are ballads, not stories, as you stated), such as African oral traditions, Ice-landic sagas, Celtic heroes and folklore theory were basically ignored...
...humor and a wonderful laugh that shakes the room." Yet Thomas has uttered not one inquiry from the bench this term, preferring to rock silently back and forth in his chair. While some critics see that as diffidence, others note that silence has always been proper behavior during oral arguments. Among those who practiced magisterial quietude: Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan...