Word: reviewer
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...announced by the White House Tuesday reflect a continued pandering to Cuban exile organizations in such electoral-prize states as Florida and New Jersey. While easing restrictions on cash flow and contact between the two countries, Clinton rejected pleas by GOP Senator John Warner to launch a bipartisan review of the four-decade-old embargo -- a proposal fiercely opposed by the influential exile lobby...
Invited by the Harvard Law Review in 1986 to address its 100th-anniversary banquet, he lectured about Harvard and Yale law grads on the Supreme Court and in legal practice who hindered rather than helped the fight for racial justice. He warned, "Because today's law students will be tomorrow's political leaders, judges and Supreme Court Justices, it is crucial that they develop a social conscience...
...independent counsel's job in 1994--against the advice of virtually everyone he knew--he was immediately assailed as a partisan Clinton stalker. It was an unusual position for him since he'd always enjoyed being the Democrats' favorite Republican--a lawyer trusted enough to be asked to review Senator Bob Packwood's private diaries, a conservative judge with serious credentials as a defender of the First Amendment. He had even ruled in favor of the Washington Post in a big libel suit. "[When] the attacks began," Starr says, "I started saying, 'Well, how do you respond...
...have lots of others too. There are things I review, and then there are things that I really like to use. Here's a short list of stuff I found and loved this year. At the top of my chart is my pair of Bang & Olufsen Form 2 headphones ($100). As someone who commutes by rail and therefore needs to drown out the train shouters on their cellular phones, I lusted after this pair of headphones for my Walkman for years. Comfortable as velvet earmuffs, the Form 2s deliver a luscious, fat sound. Plus they keep me at the forefront...
Several owners remain philosophically opposed to any nonhuman intrusion on the dignity of the game, which is essentially a blood sport. But a random sampling of teams suggests replay will get a thorough review in the off-season, as will oft debated questions such as whether officials should be full-time professionals rather than weekend warriors with day jobs...