Word: baume
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anti-Western rants against "hegemonic" powers like the U.S. And, if leaders are again faced with massive demonstrations, expect them to look harder for a compromise before issuing the shoot-to-kill order. None of these constraints will lead to sudden democratic reform, but University of California professor Richard Baum suspects the Olympics could give society more room to maneuver: "Not a panacea, but progress nonetheless." That careful diplomacy may already be in evidence: the day after the announcement, a Beijing court found U.S. academic Li Shaomin guilty of spying for Taiwan at a one-day trial but ordered...
...supposedly being "pro-criminal" and soft on capital punishment. The charge was outright slander. White had voted to uphold the death sentence in 41 of the 59 cases that came before him, roughly the same proportion as Ashcroft's court appointees when he was Governor. No wonder Gordon Baum, leader of white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, in 1999 included Ashcroft along with Pat Buchanan in the circle of politicians he'd like to see in the White House...
...Does Baum know something Bush doesn't? Can Ashcroft be trusted to oversee the investigation of alleged voting-rights abuses in Florida, which many blacks believe disenfranchised them and delivered the presidency unfairly to Bush? This is one nomination that, pardon the pun, should be consigned to the Ashcroft of history...
Australian Consulate-General Michael Baum attended to accept the literature award on behalf of Australian winner Jasmuheen, who explains in her book Living on Light that eating really isn't necessary...
...think the scientific community needs to have its pants taken off every now and then," Baum said of the event, sponsored by the Annals of Improbable Research...