I teach my law students that language matters. They know that manslaughter and murder are very different offenses. But the meaning of some legal terms can mean something else. For example a ...

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Leotta served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington D.C., where she specialized in prosecuting sex crimes; she now writes crime novels. Americans have been told a dangerous myth. It is an old ...

Assess the harm. Don’t “catastrophize.” Take responsibility. By Anna Goldfarb Oops! You asked a recently fired friend-of-a-friend how his job is going. The ...

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Maria Schrader directs this adaptation of the book about reporters’ efforts to document sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein. By Alexis Soloski When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

A jury delivered a guilty verdict Tuesday in the capital murder trial of a Lewisville man accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in a taxi in 2008. Yaser Abdel Said, 65, evaded arrest ...

Dr. Hisham Said is an Associate Professor and the Construction Management Program Coordinator in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering at Santa Clara University. He holds ...