Word: telegrammed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State Department, while attempting to appear sensitive, may not want a new precedent set or a new category of "cultural asylum" established. In an ambivalently worded telegram to the presiding judge in Portland, the State Department declared that its latest reports indicate that female circumcision is practiced in more than half of Nigeria; still, it said, while the girls might be cut, "that is not an inevitable consequence." The telegram added that if Oluloro was deported, she did not have to live where mutilation remains the custom...
...fooled. Tommy Lee Jones is a no-nonsense, macho actor who takes his work very seriously, refuses to bullshit and is not afraid to speak his mind. Measuring his words and punctuating them with long pauses, Jones speaks like a telegram. His monotoned voice and alarming brevity find a paradoxical balance between supercilious, down home rudeness and overly reverent attentiveness...
...this time Harris, 41, didn't have to wait. To the amazement of seasoned court watchers, the Supreme Court last week issued the equivalent of a judicial telegram, a terse, 9-to-0 decision in Harris' favor. It came only 27 days after oral arguments, a period so brief as to be virtually unprecedented. In a court renowned for innumerable footnotes and ponderous opinions, the Justices took a concise eight pages to clarify the standards for sexual harassment under Title VII, the federal discrimination law. The court's dramatic decision was no accident. "By acting quickly and unanimously, the court...
...three columns a week for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and I write for Fort Worth very specifically. I think I'm supposed to try and do one non-Texas column a week but I kind of never pay any attention to that...
...serious blurbs. For Chrissakes, Lawrence, Mass. is burning down in a wave of arsons and after a year and a half the two full-time cops on the Mary Joe Frug case haven't any idea who murdered her. So give it a year. Next year, send us a telegram or something; tell us how Sgt. Centrella is doing on the Frug case and what the list of Harvard cultural elite looks like...