Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fatally stabbing an 18-year-old woman. On the morning of the trial, with witnesses waiting and jury selection about to begin, Rubin asked to be excused from the case. Carefully mincing words in order to shield confidential conversations with his client, he says, he intimated to Judge Sidney Shapiro that Sanborn planned to lie on the stand. Sanborn, recalls Rubin, had "told me what he wanted to do, what he wanted to say, and what he wanted me to do and say." Shapiro refused Rubin's request, ordering him to proceed with the case. The judge cited the lapse...
...dwellings atop steep mesas in northern Arizona almost a millennium ago. The Navajo, a fast-growing tribe of hunters turned shepherds, arrived about 500 years later but proved more aggressive and dynamic. Eventually, the Navajo and their herds outnumbered and surrounded the Hopi and their crops. Hopi Chairman Ivan Sidney, 37, portrays his tribe as a peaceful people provoked to vengeance: "It's like growing up in a rough neighborhood. You have to get tough to protect your property rights...
Despite their conflict over these homelands, many Hopi and Navajo have become friends through business dealings or school. Hopi Chairman Sidney and Navajo Chairman Peterson Zah were schoolmates, but as Sidney says, "When I was elected, the friendship took a vacation." Sidney threatens to break a sacred buckskin treaty wand if the Navajo do not evacuate Hopi land, which would signify the complete collapse of an ancient vow, and he refuses to entertain notions of a land swap or cash deal to settle matters. Each side is waging a sophisticated publicity campaign, assisted by experienced outside activists. Indeed...
...major consumer organization is currently pushing for a nationwide ban on % the sale of over-the-counter capsules. Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Washington-based Health Research Group, argues that such a ban "would be a shortsighted solution to a terrorist threat." FDA Commissioner Dr. Frank Young concurs: "You are on a slippery slope when you allow a group of terrorists to start driving products off the market." The FDA, Young says, is not now considering any ban on capsules...
...Aaron Spelling (The Love Boat, Dynasty) that make them unmistakably American artifacts? To a good part of the rest of the world, the U.S. is nothing but its global pop gush. Not the Bill of Rights, not Mary Cassatt, not George Balanchine but Madonna, The A-Team and Sidney Sheldon. The respectable pieties are correct: sure, America is the land of freedom and the land of opportunity. But it is perhaps more lovably the land of great tap dancing and terrific special effects, the land of oomph...