Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After cracking a joke about someone else's weight, he is hoisted up to bring Don Juan down. It's the beginning of a beautiful friendship as doctor and lunatic are whisked away to a mental hospital to "cure" the delusions of the young romancer. Within days, Jack is swept into the world of his patient, whom he comes wholeheartedly to believe is truly the legend he claims...
Dershowitz, who has borrowed Harvard's prestige to lend weight to a variety of moral and social causes, some meritorious and some not, has no moral basis for claiming exemption. As a paid member of the defense, he has paraded himself through the media as a commentator. It occurs to me that even Harvard may be well-served by a gadfly, if that is what it takes to inform it that its acquiescence in this matter makes it an amicus curiae of the legal team which is helping to dismantle the fundamental dignity of our institutions of law and order...
RELEASED. MIKE TYSON, 28, once and possibly future world heavyweight champion; from the Indiana Youth Center after serving three years for the rape of a beauty pageant contestant; in Plainfield, Indiana. Tyson leaves prison trimmed down to his fighting weight...
...murdered during the carjacking of his Jeep, was permitted to address the killer, Edward Summers. "I just want to ask you," said Falcone, her voice taut with rage, "why didn't you just take the Jeep? Why? Why?" Said prosecutor William Mooney: "She seemed like a great weight had been lifted from her shoulders...
...case. As thousands of cancer patients know well, standard chemotherapy involves figuring out a treatment that is aggressive enough to destroy a tumor without also killing the patient. For each person, doctors must calculate how much drug to use in relation to the individual's size and body weight...