Word: appealing
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...Zardari signed a provision allowing for the implementation of Islamic law in Malakand, Sufi Mohammad, the local religious leader who negotiated the accord (and who is father-in-law to the local Taliban leader), announced that he would not recognize the Supreme Court of Pakistan, even in cases of appeal. He also said that while the Taliban fighters would adhere to the peace agreement, they would not give up their arms. (Read "Can Pakistan Be Untangled from the Taliban...
...predominant, so-called “Big Three” sports, and their compatibility with one another; baseball, the oldest organized sport in the nation, may be the national pastime, yet it cannot claim to hold a monopoly on the people’s affections—the appeal of football and basketball offer their own substantial challenges. The dominant notion of playoffs and tournament structures in American sport is equally befuddling. Watching the major sporting events in my freshman year with a greater-than-usual sense of confusion, I couldn’t help asking questions: Why can none...
...faced charges of corruption for years in a case that was dropped in early April but may yet be revived. He was also once accused of rape, though acquitted after a high-profile court case. And whereas Mandela urged high-minded reconciliation and forgiveness in power, Zuma's appeal is populist and his supporters are regularly accused of inciting animosity or interfering in the institutions of state for their own political purposes. This all fits the pattern of a party whose moral authority has rapidly declined in the face of a series of scandals over corruption and incompetence...
...federal court of appeals recently overturned a motion by Harvard Law School professor Charles R. Nesson ’60 to allow what his staff says would have been the first Internet broadcast of a federal judicial proceeding to the general public in history. The development came in the midst of a case that Nesson is defending on behalf of Joel Tenenbaum, a graduate student at Boston University who faces up to $1 million in damages after being sued by several prominent record labels in 2005 for allegedly downloading seven songs from a file-sharing Web site in high school...
...that's the big problem for Crowe, Julia Roberts (Duplicity) George Clooney (Michael Clayton), all of whom have starred in conspiracy dramas written or co-written by Tony Gilroy. They and their films appeal to adults - in box-office terms, the all-unimportant 25-to-80 demographic. The theatrical release of their films is just the teaser campaign for the real release: when they're available on Netflix...