Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most effective and compelling legal fictions of all time. In this ceremony, which is only performed once a year, the synagogue is converted into a courtroom. Torah scrolls are brought out before the congregation, and three people--usually the person leading the service plus two others--stand together at the front of the room to comprise a court of law. With court in session, the person leading the service recites three times, in a melody at least 900 years old, a formula of annulment of all future contracts between God and the individuals present, active from that exact moment...
...does Holland stand on Jane Campion's controversial rendering of James's The Portrait of a Lady? That film was spurned by audiences and many critics for reimagining the novel's entrapped ingenue into an emotional masochist looking for trouble. "I think the criticism of Jane and Portrait came because people didn't like the film," says Holland. "If the film had been more effective for them, they would not have nitpicked about the approach...
Washington, D.C. is a screwy place these days. Which is not to say that it hasn't been before. It's just that sometimes the glaring inconsistencies and flagrant dismissals of truth stand out more clearly than at other times. And it's been one of those weeks...
...policy is not seen as credible by the Chinese government in terms of our concerns regarding human rights and our willingness to use policy tools to stand by [political dissenters], like the administration pledged to do," Abrash said...
...been one of the mysteries of the Oklahoma City bombing case. TIME has now obtained an official summary of the session, and it discloses in detail how Nichols tried desperately to save his skin, even giving incriminating statements against McVeigh. It is not clear if Nichols will take the stand, and he has made no public comments, so the most that will ever be heard from him may be these statements made to the FBI, many of them apparently false and contradictory...