Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pragmatic we can expect those pursuits to be. When we enjoy one extreme now, we must recognize that we simultaneously invite the other one later. While Harvard enforces the distinction between academic pursuits and career training in its undergraduate course of study, Oxford merely chooses to take the same stand with respect to graduate studies...
After earning a B.A. in public administration, Lott enrolled in the Ole Miss law school. By now his parents were separated and unable to help him financially. He had saved some money from summer jobs at a root-beer stand in Pascagoula and at the local hospital as a janitor mopping rooms. He took out federal student loans. And he secured paid jobs with the university, first as a recruiter and later as a fund raiser for the alumni association, where he expanded his political network...
...Southern California: "Most lawyers will tell you they encourage their clients to tell them the truth so they won't be blindsided. It's very hard to defend someone who is lying to you." On the other hand, defense lawyers cannot knowingly encourage their clients to lie on the stand without being liable to charges of suborning perjury. And if it is discovered that an attorney on either side leaked the document, that lawyer could be disbarred. Says former O.J. Simpson defense lawyer Carl Douglas: "There have been a series of leaks in this case, and I don't think...
...California, Los Angeles: "Just a report of this is extremely prejudicial to McVeigh's right to a fair trial. Even if the press reports all its caveats, the people still remember this news." When he spoke to TIME in March 1996, McVeigh said he looked forward to taking the stand. Why? "So that the jurors know me, and not what they've read." He can test that conviction when he gets to trial...
...have to be reached. How it will be done is anything but clear. "Science is close to crossing some horrendous boundaries," says Leon Kass, professor of social thought at the University of Chicago. "Here is an opportunity for human beings to decide if we're simply going to stand in the path of the technological steamroller or take control and help guide its direction...