Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defense lawyer were ever to try to influence the testimony of a witness by threats or promises, he would be prosecuted for obstruction of justice even if he coerced the witness to tell the truth. But prosecutors are not subject to the same rules...
Monica Lewinsky should be free to testify to the truth as she sees it, subject to the usual sanction of perjury, if it can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that she deliberately lied after receiving the immunity. The content of her testimony should in no way be influenced by Starr's threats or promises. It is not Kenneth Starr who will be testifying. It is Monica Lewinsky, and Starr's heavy thumb should not be on the scales of truth...
...past 125 years, newspapers have grown. Now they will begin to shrink. The newspaper of 25 years from now will be smaller, but will contain more relevant information for the reader. In addition, articles will be shorter and contain plugs for ways to find out more information about the subject through the Internet...
...seat. This time he will spend 10 days aloft in the comparative gymnasium of the shuttle--a vehicle famous for causing space sickness. Moreover, as both captain and crew of his old Mercury spacecraft, Glenn was accustomed to being in charge. This time he will be passenger and scientific subject in a spacecraft piloted by astronauts young enough to be his sons--or daughters...
...kind of "escort service" David van Blarigan found at his bedside. The schools and camps are often isolated, either in rural America (Thompson Falls, Mont.) or in faraway locales (Western Samoa). They number as many as 2,000, estimates Alexia Parks, author of a new online report on the subject, An American Gulag, and they come in many varieties: religious, military-style, and some focused on special issues, like drug abuse. A few try to "shock" gay children back to heterosexuality...