Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full immunity for Lewinsky, not just for her courtroom testimony. "Ginsburg wanted the subpoena quashed," says TIME Washington correspondent Jay Branegan. "But that probably won't happen. So when Monica sits down Thursday and they ask the first question, she'll take the Fifth." Both sides would then retreat to the judge's chamber, where Starr will ask for "use immunity" -- immunity for anything Lewinsky says in court, that day only -- and most likely get it. Which leaves Monica with no legal excuse to keep quiet -- and exposes her to a contempt charge if she still refuses to testify...
What will happen as a result of this election is that the campus will retreat from any sort of common discourse back into its private little holes. No longer will anyone be concerned with the great flow of Harvard students through this august school, and no longer will anyone care what mark we leave for posterity. We will go back to sipping our evil lattes, too weak to stand for anything and too lazy to care...
...other words, Gates had been guilty of foolhardy grandstanding after all. Last Thursday, with closing arguments set to begin, the chairman chose retreat. "I am pleased to advise the court that we have reached [an agreement that] settles the dispute on the compliance," announced Microsoft lawyer Richard Urowsky. "We believe this order will achieve all the relief the United States sought," echoed Justice attorney Phillip Malone. The judge donned his glasses. "And that," he said, "concludes our business...
...Roman Empire. As Foley's interpretation sees it, however, Antony and Cleopatra follows Antony's infatuation with Cleopatra and a long line of her betrayals: first, when she aligns herself with Caesar; second, when she withdraws her ship in the midst of battle and leads Antony to a shameful retreat; and finally, when she sends fraudulent news of her suicide to lure Antony back to her palace but drives him instead to his own death. Intermingled are the tragic stories of Antony's two wives--Fulvia and Caesar's sister Octavia (Margaret Hulce '01)--and his faithful accomplice Eros (also...
That sense of distrust was intensified by the spectacle of South Korea's continuing meltdown. Seoul jolted the world again last week when its largest state-owned bank halted efforts to raise $2 billion in desperately needed cash to pay off loans from Japan and other countries. The retreat, which came barely a week after the International Monetary Fund agreed to ride in with a $57 billion rescue package, raised the specter of a massive default by the world's 11th largest economy on its far-flung foreign obligations...