Word: overturning
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Over the past five years Northwestern University journalism and law students uncovered key evidence that helped overturn the convictions of seven death-row inmates in Illinois. "It's exhilarating," said journalism professor David Protess. "But it's outrageous that we were the defense against innocent people being put to death...
That "something" came in the form of two articles of impeachment signed by 10 council members. The Boston Globe, in a mocking article, wrote that "those defending the accused, however, see the work of a vast right-wing conspiracy with racist overtones, seeking to overturn an election that replaced a conservative administration with a liberal...
...Sept. 13, Dole arranged a breakfast meeting with Kantor and Lindner. A day later, according to an internal USTR memo, Kantor and his staff had a follow-up meeting with Lindner and his colleagues to discuss "possible strategies" to overturn the European quotas...
...life candidate--and then, in a clarification issued soon after, that it would be a "family decision." For pro-life activists, McCain's purity on the issue has been suspect since last summer, when he told the San Francisco Chronicle that he would not work to overturn Roe v. Wade. (He later rescinded the comment, or tried to.) Now there was fresh fuel on the fire, and McCain had to spend the rest of his day smothering flames from reporters and rivals such as the surging fringe candidate Alan Keyes, who sermonized on the subject during Wednesday night's G.O.P...
Council members say that Burton's subsequent loss of authority has led the council to question--and in this most recent case, overturn--his decisions as vice president...