Word: adopter
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...will be rooting for the Mets. Just for the record, I am really and truly a Pittsburgh Pirates fan - an allegiance that forces me to adopt a team every October. And out of some convoluted sense of loyalty I root pretty consistently for the National League (except for the Atlanta Braves, a team that I despise for obvious reasons). Sometimes, this fidelity to the NL comes with a stiff price: I remember how shocked and disappointed friends and family were when I pulled for the Mets in their 1986 battle against the beleaguered Boston...
...hope the Supreme Court will adopt the latter view of an immigrant's rights under the Constitution and the law. As the 5th Circuit noted, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights mandates that no person shall suffer "arbitrary arrest and detention." It would be a shame if the U.S. were to inflict such punishment on human beings simply because they have fallen through the cracks of a state-centered world...
...nation's long-term memory has deteriorated. Fifty years ago, public schools in the United States had something that educators around the world were eager to adopt--a strong music program. Japan, Germany and other countries began to realize the value of music in the schools and the system of music education in the U.S. became a model to emulate...
...Cheney's position, on one hand, empowers states to equalize the legal status of homosexuals and heterosexuals, on the other hand it gives the federal government an excuse to be apathetic with regard to states who fail to take such progressive steps, or, in a worse scenario, chose to adopt legislation that is openly hostile towards gays. Refusing to accept the need for or the legitimacy of "a federal policy in this area," Cheney's compassionate conservatism boils down to cold-hearted complacency...
Harvard decided not to adopt that program directly because it was specific to the NIH in too many ways, according to Gallant...