Word: presentism
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...Your students can be present, but I don’t want a recording,” says Gertner. “Your students can listen, but it should not be recorded...
...long pause follows, before Nesson’s reply: “I feel bad about that, I truly do, because in some sense this is all about the [Inter]net being present in the court and being able to litigate a case in a way that it is open...
...tools available to civil litigators for building a case pre-trial, deposition is one of the most powerful—an opportunity for one side’s lawyers to conduct a virtual interrogation of potential witnesses, often at their own law offices, with a court reporter present to transcribe. Put under oath and given very few grounds for objection, the deposed party has no recourse for evasion. Add to this the fact that depositions often last for hours and even days, and you get a process that is fatiguing at best, and overwhelmingly invasive at worst. But neither Tenenbaum...
...doesn’t always go over well with students: “Is there a method to the madness?”one student reporter asks in a 2002 “Law Record” column. “Plenty of Nesson’s past and present students insistently say no. Nesson, they say, is ‘selfish’ or ‘lazy’ or ‘whacked,’ just ‘an old man bored with...
...Holocaust is designed to protect the memory of the Jews and other ethnic groups killed by Nazi forces and their supporters. Russia's new bill, however, would stop anyone reexamining a history fraught with half-truths and lies propagated by the Soviet government, then carried into the present on the backs of unrevised text books and a general aversion to looking too closely the country's past. (See pictures of Hitler's rise to power...