Word: cases
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...notorious for staying at work all night and grabbing a few hours of sleep in my office." His record: 78 hours on the job with 13 hours of intermittent naps. Today, as Sciences editor, Alexander enjoys more regular hours, but his new office still has a couch, just in case...
...situation and one in 1950, when Harry Truman committed U.S. forces to the defense of South Korea in compliance with a United Nations Security Council resolution. But Columbia Law School's Louis Henkin notes that "Congress immediately ratified and acquiesced in the action." Moreover, he says, "we have no case where the President went to war when Congress told...
...visitors from the surrounding territory and around the globe. They have come to witness a long-awaited event: the trial of two men accused of murdering Chico Mendes. In fact, everyone who cares about environmental issues is watching to see whether justice will prevail in the case of the humble rubber tapper whose defense of the Amazon rain forest made him a world-renowned martyr...
Meanwhile, justice has moved relatively slowly in Xapuri. Though the Da Silvas were arrested within weeks of the murder, the case was delayed as the defense made a variety of motions and investigators questioned more than 50 people, accumulating some 2,200 pages of statements. Almost all those involved in the case -- including the judge, Mendes family members, seringueiro leaders, the lawyers and the Da Silvas -- have received death threats...
Those familiar with the Mendes case, including the lawyers, believe the verdict is in. "I would be very surprised -- shocked, is more like it -- if the jury does not find them guilty," says Marcio Thomaz Bastos, the chief prosecutor. Defense lawyer Joao Lucena Leal considers acquittal so unlikely that he is preparing an appeal. "It is going to be impossible to have a fair trial," Leal says. "With the eyes of the world on Xapuri, what you are going to witness is two men who had nothing to do with the killing being sacrificed." If convicted, the Da Silvas could...