Word: confusionism
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America's legal system is laced with protections for people who are too sick to know what they are doing or what is best for them. But as last week's proceedings in the trial of the alleged Unabomber showed, the law doesn't quite know what to do with...
"Your Honor," he said in a high, reedy voice, "before these proceedings begin, I would like to revisit the issue of my relations with my attorneys." At first, most people in the courtroom didn't even know who was speaking. A few feet away, the prosecutors looked up in confusion...
The President, Brean decides, will stage a war over nuclear terrorism with Albania. "Why Albania?" the President asks with confusion. "Why not? They're standoffish. Who would trust Albanians?" Brean replies and so the question is settled. And thus begins the deliciously corrupt 'producing' of a war by Brean and...
As troublesome as it was, however, the great grape debate did not surprise me. Harvard's activists have periodically conveyed their confusion as to whether the "protest" or the "cause" should be the engine driving the train. When Stich describes the singular disinterest with which the activists seem to approach...
While the author's diverging and converging method of writing provides an effective impression of Koltsovo, the place, as the sum of the motivations and experiences of its people through-out recent history, the style also leads at times to confusion. The narrative requires that thereader remember earlier references to...