Word: priore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Business School's admissions policy, however, has shifted toward more personal interactions with the school, Fadule says. More than 70 percent of the students enrolled in the class of '96 were interviewed prior to admissions, she says...
HASCS expects to support Eudora officially later this year. In the meantime, free versions (prior to version 2.0) are available for Mac and Windows users at ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/eudora. When using Eudora, be sure that the "checking mail" setting marked "leave mail on server" is left unchecked...
Congratulations to France's elite antiterrorist gendarmes for freeing the 173 hostages aboard the hijacked Air France jetliner [Algeria, Jan. 9] and to the other people who contributed to the rescue, even though three hostages were killed prior to the final assault. Nevertheless, it would be naive to say that the militant Armed Islamic Group will be discouraged from committing more acts of terrorism, since four Roman Catholic priests were murdered in Algeria shortly after the Airbus rescue. I fear that these killings might be a further step in the escalation of a new Algerian war, something we hoped would...
...have become a bit frazzled lately--Robert Shapiro and F. Lee Bailey weren't speaking there for a while--and the team suffered some major setbacks last week. Judge Lance Ito ruled that the prosecution need not prove its case ``to a moral certainty'' and could introduce evidence of prior violence in the Simpson marriage. But O.J.'s lawyers barely flinched. They have their special reserves--their boundless high style and winning courtroom ways, their fax hookup with appeals adviser Alan Dershowitz in Cambridge, Massachusetts, their famous and attractive client...
...Prior crimes can be used, however, to show motive, intent or planning. More recently the law has carved out a further exception for sexual assault, spousal murder and child molestation by bringing forward evidence that a pattern of past offenses in those areas is an especially good indicator of guilt. That reasoning exasperates some legal thinkers. "You can't infer murder from abuse," insists Columbia University law professor George Fletcher. "Homicide may imply abuse, but abuse does not imply homicide." All the same, the crime bill that was recently passed by Congress allows prior behavior to be used as evidence...