Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that when U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court reaches the Senate Judiciary Committee, a battle royal will begin. Still, there is no sign anybody is postponing squabbling until the confirmation hearings. Even the question of when the hearings should start has raised a ruckus. Sept. 15, committee Democrats decided last week. Horrors, said the White House, eager to have Bork seated before the next court term in October. Implored White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: "We would sure like to start the new term with a full court...
...arrest his estranged wife's boss, whom he accused of having an affair with his wife. So Stackelbeck gathered evidence and filed a citizen's complaint, the first adultery charge in the state since 1950. His wife's lover was later arraigned and is now awaiting trial. The ruckus made lawmakers look skeptically at the anachronistic law. "You could go so far as to say adultery is wrong," said Republican Representative Michael Jones, author of the decriminalization bill. "But it's not the sort of wrong that we as a society want to punish by criminal imposition." Though adultery would...
Truth is I thought the whole thing was a little surreal but basically very funny all along. Maybe this goes to prove I have a big, insensitive Eastern ego, but I don't think so. Fact is there was a ruckus, but it was all so ridiculous that it was hard to take it seriously...
...cannot simply sign away constitutionally protected freedoms. That's about as absurd as forcing students to agree not to discuss politics in the dorms for fear of creating a ruckus, or banning political buttons on campus for fear of offending others. A contract that violates the Constitution may give John Silber something to wave in his hand, but B.U. students wisely called his bluff. Silber's contract typifies his attempt to dress up his actions, but he really adorns himself in the Emperor's wardrobe...
After alumni and professors raised a ruckus, the lawyers, who reached the settlement, acknowledged it had stemmed from the sexual allegations. Pilecki, 52, was indicted in June on charges of sexually assaulting two male students. A pre-trial conference in his case was postponed yesterday because Pilecki remains hospitalized for severe depression at McLean Hospital in Cambridge...