Word: press
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According to a Harvard Law School (HLS) press release, the award--the highest given by the HLSA--recognizes long-term extraordinary service to the public, the legal profession...
According to the press release, Chayes has done important work over the past 50 years in private practice, with state governments, the U.S. Supreme Court, presidential administrations and the U.S. Department of State, as well as in the classroom...
...opponents of gay rights have seen same-gender sex as a uniquely human phenomenon, one of the many ways our famously corruptible species flouts the laws of nature. But nature's morality, it seems, may be remarkably flexible, at least if the new book Biological Exuberance (St. Martin's Press), by linguist and cognitive scientist Bruce Bagemihl, is to be believed. According to Bagemihl, the animal kingdom is a more sexually complex place than most people know--one where couplings routinely take place not just between male-female pairs but also between male-male and female-female ones. What...
...murder trial, it was to the L.A.P.D. that Simpson turned last week after being robbed. Simpson says he was changing shoes in his car following a round of golf when he was approached by an armed man. "This guy looked like a regular solid citizen," he told the Associated Press. "In his 40s, very clean shaven. I might have taken him for an off-duty policeman." Simpson says he bit the man's hand to make him release the gun and, in the struggle, cut his own. As the man fled in his car, Simpson gave chase...
Instead of cultivating one garden, he looks to everyone's. He protects, collects, lobbies, studies, preserves and expands his territory. He networks like a press agent but believes it is up to individuals to keep what's living living. "When it ends up," he tells me, "the world is not going to be one homogenized place. It's going to have bright spots, richer places and more beautiful places. And the reason that will happen is that individuals took responsibility and did something." As it was in the beginning, the world is a garden...