Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allowed to see, U.S. District Judge Alfred M. Wolin decided the bureau had acted "in the interest of national security." The judge added that he hoped the FBI would expunge Patterson's file as it has offered to do, but Patterson's parents object that the bureau might start a new one. "Todd is still writing to foreign governments," says his father. Maybe Todd should have collected baseball cards...
...forbidding to start with and inaccessible for so long, consider that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar once looked for what he calls "positive role models" and found them in inanimate objects. "The Empire State Building," he says. "The redwoods." They represent an 86-in. man and his 24-year journey from New York City to California, nearly done. History's greatest basketball player is in his last season...
...this is the age of the really cute guy, and James Woods is a really scary guy, as he shows in his portrayal of lawyer Eddie Dodd in True Believer. At the start of the film he sticks his face into a jury box and yells. It is a demonic face, hollowed out by unfathomable passions, the eyes agleam with an anger that may be authentic, or may be faked for persuasive purposes. Or maybe its roots are in something that happened to Eddie in kindergarten. Who knows...
...Nobody moved," Harvard Coach Pete Roby said. "We were playing one on five at the start of the second half. We looked like we didn't know what we were doing with a lead...
...start with the [Critical Legal Studies students. The trouble with many students is that they do not have the faintest idea of how one goes about proving something. They have no experience with sound techniques for acquiring reliable knowledge or determining whether a belief that is essential to a value choice is well grounded or not. In my courses, this is evidenced over and over again, and I am always moved to exasperation when it occurs...