Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine justices have removed themselves from the Garcia Meza case. It is no wonder: on April 23 a replacement judge was mysteriously shot and wounded. Garcia Meza, 53, has done nothing to dissipate the atmosphere of intimidation. When he unexpectedly strode into court last month to defend himself, ending four years of exile and hiding, he was escorted by a platoon of soldiers. He now lives in an army garrison outside the city of Sucre, where the trial is being held...
...wing. In a number of crucial cases, however, O'Connor has begun to split from her usual allies, Chief Justice Warren Burger and William Rehnquist, and has sometimes cast the decisive vote that yields a liberal result. Says Michael McDonald, general counsel of the conservative American Legal Foundation: "I wonder if she is traveling the route blazed by Justice Blackmun." Harry Blackmun, who moved from a close identification with the Chief Justice to join the court's shifting centrists, has also noted O'Connor's passage. "In certain areas," he told a meeting of federal judges last summer...
...hold elections for a civilian government as soon as possible, but said the time was not yet right. One recently returned opposition politician described the country as a "rudderless ship drifting from one crisis to the next." Despite the council's positive gestures last week, many Haitians still wonder whether their current leaders should remain at the helm...
Water is a plotless wonder that vaguely whirlpools around the trials and tribulations of the people of Cascara, a mythical last remnant of the British Empire that the British would be only too happy to get rid of. Michael Caine is the colonial governor, sincerely concerned with the welfare of the people and his ganja crop. Brenda Vaccaro is the governor's Guatemalan wife with an unsavory past and personality. She doesn't get an "A" for originality with her Charo imitation and dialogue...
...came here, I thought I would have these long, intellectual, exciting conversations with scholars in my field. And it has not turned out that way. I have had exciting conversations with maybe one or two people--males. I really miss the opportunity to interact with female scholars. I wonder what happens to all the other tenured women...