Word: appealling
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...prohibited can serve no public good, but will empower al-Qaeda propaganda operations, hurt our country's image, and endanger our men and women in uniform." They have urged him to reverse the Pentagon's decision, which was made with the backing of the Justice Department, and, if necessary, appeal the case to the Supreme Court. (Read about the Army Field Manual...
...woman in Nazi Germany who assumes her dead husband's identity. Once, at an airport security checkpoint, she was herded into the men's line. With her short hair and lanky frame she can seem either gender, or the best of both - a super-androgyne with a sex appeal as complex as it is irresistible...
...long as there’s that necessity, his students say, Nesson will go forward. With a potential Supreme Court appeal on the table, a trial still in the offing, and—perhaps most importantly—an open Internet, a public domain to defend, the future will not wait...
...April, the First Circuit Appeal is over—a loss for the Tenenbaum team—and there’s an even greater sense of urgency in the air. The case would have to proceed, it appeared, without the “village” full of Web viewers. Nesson, who had made what one judge called a “powerful, eloquent” argument in support of the Web cast just a few weeks earlier, had predicted the opposite outcome, making the result all the more jarring. “The troops are disheartened...
...Nesson forged ahead, more boldly still. A week after the First Circuit ruled “no” on the Webcast, there’s talk of an appeal to the Supreme Court on the issue. At the April team meeting I attend, Nesson proposes suing the judges on the panel, counting them as complicit in an abuse of legal process for their erroneous ruling. The office, filled with chairs and laptops, erupts. Four letter words fly. The volume rises. Ray Bilderbeck, the clinical’s notorious dissenter, puts his head back and laughs flat...