Word: proofing
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...This is the latest proof of how the lynch mob mentality that the Enron Task Force has incited and fueled, prevails over the rule of law," says Skilling's defense attorney Daniel M. Petrocelli. "The proposed legislation is openly unconstitutional. And the motion to the court asks the court in the starkest terms to participate in a knowing violation of the Constitution. I trust the court will reject the invitation...
...suppose I shouldn't be so surprised. It's long been assumed that blacks and whites don't experience race or recall racism in America in the same way. Now there's proof. In a fascinating new study, sociologists at the University of Minnesota asked whites, blacks and Hispanics what caused whites in the U.S. to have an advantage and blacks to have a disadvantage, and how much they adhered to "color-blind" ideals...
...hostages. Paul Conneally, Deputy Head of Delegation in Israel for the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), says his organization is in touch with "those involved" in holding the soldiers, and was given assurances that all three are healthy and well-cared for. But he says, "We need proof of life...
...crimes, defense lawyers typically request a quick trial before a judge, prosecutors don't bother to prepare thoroughly, and the result is often acquittal. Another possibility is that judges so resented the federal sentencing guidelines, which replaced judicial discretion with strict and frequently harsh rules, that they demanded stronger proof of guilt when the prescribed sentence seemed unfair. Leipold leans to this explanation because judges started to acquit even more often at about the time the guidelines went into effect...
...would appreciate it if you state, 'It is my strong judgment - correction, that I know that this is not a hoax, that the communication should be taken very seriously.'" Karr added that the fact that he had been slow in revealing himself as the killer should be further proof "that I was not seeking overnight notoriety." But in a separate passage, he writes: "I want to discuss the book and our collaboration. There must be some way we can manage it." As it has become clear that Karr's confessions were false, the release of his e-mail correspondence reveals...