Word: scholar
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Later, even pro-choice Harvard scholar Laurence Tribe admitted that "some risk of chilling protected speech exists." And litigator Staver warned darkly that activists denied a peaceful outlet "will end up expressing themselves in other ways." Operation Rescue director Flip Benham's first reaction seemed to justify that fear: "We won't stop until they kill us," he said. "((The Justices)) have shaken their fists at almighty God, and they are now dust." Later, however, Benham was more subdued. "It will cost so much," he says. "We will spend months and years in jail. We're all trying to weigh...
...Nuremberg and Tokyo, the defeated were tried by the victors. "In Bosnia there is no victory," says Dominique Wouters, a tribunal legal officer. The chief judge, Italian legal scholar Antonio Cassese, says that makes the creation of the tribunal "a turning point in international relations. For the first time," he says, "the community of states is rendering a justice that is not that of the victors, imposed at the very time when the air is still being rent by the clash of arms and cries of pain...
...rare scientific manual by the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci has been placed on the auction block by its owner, the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The 72-page codex contains more than 300 drawings representing the artist-scholar's revolutionary ideas on astronomy and mechanics. The manuscript was purchased, amid complaints from Britain, in 1980 for $5.13 million from an English earl, and is expected to fetch an even more astronomical price this time around...
...wedlock, and those children are four times as likely as the others to be poor. Unwed mothers average nearly 8 years on welfare, in ^ contrast to 4.8 years overall. "From the President on down, there has been an amazing shift in attitude," says Douglas Besharov, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Today everyone recognizes that dealing with births out of wedlock is the central issue of welfare reform, so much so that the President's draft plan makes dealing with illegitimacy the No. 1 priority...
...become too chummy with contributors or their party's political machine may turn corrupt, but candidates whose wealth enables them to win elections without engaging in the give-and-take of party activism may turn into testy, unbending legislators, a Congress of Perots. Says Norman Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute: "Ideally, you want Congress to be a variegated group, people with diverse life experiences. You lose something if personal wealth becomes a criterion...