Word: stephen
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...draped around Jackson. "However much Mr. Cosby is beloved by the universe," says Lynch, "if this young woman has some reasonable basis for believing he is her father, then she becomes in my mind, and I would think for most jurors, a fairly sympathetic figure." Though law professor Stephen Gillers of New York University doubts the defense arguments will prevail, he predicts, "They will tarnish Cosby's reputation in the larger moral arena." Even if Jackson loses in the court of law, she may triumph in the court of public opinion...
...military power. Last week the stronger faction, led by former Khmer Rouge cadre Hun Sen, overthrew "co-Prime Minister" Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who escaped in advance of the tanks. "The international community gave them [Cambodians] a chance to recover from the ravages of civil war," said former U.S. Congressman Stephen Solarz, an architect of the $2 billion U.N. effort that stabilized the country in advance of the 1993 election, "and they appear to have blown...
...even the good old days could tire of loquaciousness and appreciate the fine bite. Stephen Douglas, after all, made it into the Macmillan Dictionary of Political Quotations with "Sit down, Lincoln, your time...
Early in this century, the humorist Stephen Leacock said the American innocent must prove his folksy virtue by being semi-inarticulate, mouthing things like "Heck, b'gosh, b'gum, yuck, yuck." That is why Jimmy Stewart's hesitating-gulpy delivery was reassuring. His appeal went so deep because it touched America's belief in its own simplicity. When Mark Twain wanted to present himself as a traveling American, he called his tourist book The Innocents Abroad...
...suffering has a constitutionally cognizable interest in controlling the circumstances of his or her imminent death." She left the question open, but advocates like Laurence Tribe, who argued the New York case, read her words as suggesting possible constitutional exceptions to state bans. Several of the remaining concurring Justices--Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens and David Souter--seemed still more receptive. Even Rehnquist, in a footnote, declined to "foreclose" consideration of a "more particularized challenge" by a suffering individual...