Word: ruling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...fate had put Gore and Bush in the other's place on election night, the drama of the next five weeks would have had everybody playing the opposite role. Katherine Harris would have been flexibility personified. Laurence Tribe and David Boies would have been eloquent sticklers for the precise rule of law. Do you doubt...
...some 70 people in the 'Caravan of Death' in 1973 [an episode in which senior military officers toured the country removing Pinochet opponents from prisons and summarily executing them]. But there are more than 200 charges against Pinochet working their way through the legal system. So even as they rule on this, the courts are receiving more evidence relating to other cases...
...WHITE TEETH Zadie Smith's miraculous first novel takes place in a tumultuously multicultural area of London where unlikely friendships and even more unlikely romances have become the rule. Much of the action is comic, but even at their most foolish, Smith's characters display confusions that are both fascinating and ultimately admirable...
Russia is still far from a healthy free market. But Browder is determined to persevere. His battles in Russia's unbridled market have pushed him to the vanguard of investors, both foreign and native, who yearn for a rule of law in Russia. Of course, not everyone in the country is ready to fight fair. But Bill Browder is prepared to keep his guard up and go the distance...
...guard against big-city rule? Initially designed to protect the interests of smaller states and to overcome the geographical and communication obstacles inherent in the newly established republic, the electoral college, its opponents contend, is also a vestige of a paradoxically imperialistic philosophy toward democracy. The founders, it seems, did not trust the people to elect a candidate directly; the intellectual challenges of understanding a campaign might be beyond their ken. Instead, the people could vote for electors, who would travel, ostensibly on the voters' behalf, to cast their votes for the chosen candidate. It also...