Word: shredding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rights violations, but the thousands of Haitians who have been systematically repressed since the 1991 military coup are stuck. No matter, says the President who ran on a platform of putting people first -- including, not incidentally, the Haitian asylum seekers whom Clinton promised he wouldn't return "until some shred of democracy is restored there." No, says the President, affirming his postelection policy of forced repatriation, "We still believe that we should process the Haitians who are asking for asylum in Haiti, and that that is the safest thing for them." Translation: it's the safest political course for Clinton...
...time around Harvard got the protests, the eatin, and the accusations of bigotry. Granted, Mansfield didn't provide the cross-examiner with 56 pages of corroborating evidence, but he at least had arguments--arguments that once again have been dismissed as "invalid," "bigoted" and "deeply offensive," all without a shred of this "serious scholarship" we hear so much about from the BGLSA; arguments that once again have not been countered...
...mounting a prosecution of B.C.C.I.'s principals and their associates. The case dragged on through 45 witnesses and reams of documents -- 15,000 pages of transcript in all. The material was so numbingly complex that some jurors fell asleep listening to it. Meanwhile an agile defense team managed to shred many prosecution witnesses, several of whom were former B.C.C.I. officers. So confident was the defense team that it did not call a single witness...
Avery Tolar (Gene Hackman), McDeere's mentor at the firm, is now a much more interesting character. A heavy-drinking womanizer who uses alcohol and sex to dull the pain of his wife's rejection while managing to retain a shred of human compassion at the end, his relationship with Abby is one of the strongest parts of the film. The contrast between the young, innocent wife and the older, jaded lawyer and her ultimate emergence as the stronger character is painful but dynamic to watch...
...Breaux's proposals form the basis of a compromise that ensures Senate passage of Clinton's economic plan -- and helps shred the tax-and-spend label that has contributed to the President's dive in the polls -- then a health- care-reform scheme that proves nonthreatening to business could fuel a sustained economic recovery. "The bad news is that the President's underlying liberal instincts could cause us to propose a health bill that takes care of the uninsured but does nothing to generate jobs," says a White House aide. "The good news is that it's largely...