Word: defection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...predicted that the new Czar would rule seven years. They assured anyone interested in listening that Gorbachev was "foretold in the Bible," that he was an apocalyptic figure: he had a mark on his forehead. Everyone had searched for signs in previous leaders as well, but Lenin's speech defect, Stalin's mustache, Brezhnev's eyebrows and Khrushchev's vast baldness were utterly human manifestations. The unusual birthmark on the new General Secretary's forehead, combined with his inexplicably radical actions, gave him a mystical aura. Writing about Gorbachev--who he was, where he came from, what he was after...
...trait held paramount in defining oneself. Some might have looks or will; Ted Kaczynski prized his brilliance. So it was in a sort of self-defense that he refused to allow his mind to be called into question, first by trying to fire his lawyers for planning a mental-defect defense, at least in the penalty phase of the trial. Kaczynski wanted to hire another lawyer, but Judge Garland Burrell Jr. scotched that idea as coming too late in the game...
...defense strategy was shattered. Last week Clarke and lead attorney Quin Denvir filed a terse, one-sentence notice saying they no longer planned to argue that their client was mentally ill. Says University of Chicago law professor Albert Alschuler: "If he doesn't want to raise a mental-defect defense, he doesn't have...
...whole schedule on Thursday is much more open to attack by other networks," says Harold Vogel, an entertainment-industry analyst for Cowen & Co. All this is bad enough, but NBC also faces the possibility that ER will soon defect to another network. Now that Seinfeld is going, that would be truly calamitous for NBC, so the pressure to keep ER has become exponentially greater...
Kaczynski Gets His Way Theodore Kaczynski has forced his lawyers to abandon attempts to show that the Unabomber-accused suffers from a mental defect. How will the defense argue the case? Full Story...