Word: ruling
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What this portends, in practical terms, is a hearing within the next several months in Arkansas's Pulaski County courtroom, where a circuit judge will be assigned to rule on the fate of the President's law license. Clinton has never suggested that he would ever again practice law, so a disbarment proceeding would be a purely antiseptic exercise. (And there's something exquisitely postmodern, not to say Clintonian, about punishing someone by not allowing him to do what he didn't want to do anyway.) No matter. In court the President and his lawyers will be forced to argue...
...like Cisco and Hewlett-Packard are falling even on exceptional earnings reports. With the good news out, the new logic goes, there's nothing left to keep the stock up. Better sell. The scary thing is that there is no way to tell how long this irrational gloominess will rule. Investors should come to grips with the possibility that we have entered an old-fashioned bear market--one that lasts six to nine months before reaching bottom, is marked by frequent suckers' rallies that pull bargain hunters in too early, and fails to recover quickly off the bottom. Give...
...trouble with capital punishment is that as a rule, we can only use one or two of these techniques on any given killer. I suppose that if we were feeling especially indignant, we might start by stoning a guy, then lop off his limbs, impale him, and finally (quick, before he bleeds to death) put him in the leaky canoe and push him out among the crocodiles. He'd get the point...
...last letters the soldier-authors are known to have written, living testimonials from ordinary men who only suspected they were about to die. There is no vainglory of war in these missives, just the eternal mystery of man's preference for the call to arms over the Golden Rule. These epistles haunt the soul the same way the best war poems do--perhaps even more poignantly, because we know what their authors didn't: that in Owen's memorable line, their eyes would very soon "shine the holy glimmers of good-byes...
...There was a tacit assumption that you would never say anything critical of the party line," Broughton says. "I broke that rule...