Word: contemptible
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...struck from the record. The two lawyers, who have been at odds since Cochran suggested early in the trial that Darden was only on the prosecution's team to appeal to black jurors, quickly began arguing. Judge Lance Ito cleared the court, threatening to hold both men in contempt. Later, he allowed Darden's question to stand...
...singularly unqualified to address teaching and learning, and Harvard's inclusion of him in its fund-raising plea is profoundly disturbing. His egregious actions in 1983 undermined education at Harvard and jeopardized the careers of the women involved. I can imagine no greater expression of Harvard's continued contempt for the education of women than the promotion of Professor Dominguez as an exemplary educator, despite his receipt of an undergraduate teaching award...
...they may also be inviting copycat behavior by other lethal social critics. If the publications say no, they could be seen by the public as accomplices to murder if Unabomber carries out his threat. "Why should a trusting relationship be established with an individual who has shown total contempt for human life?" asks Everette Dennis of Columbia University's Freedom Forum Media Studies Center...
...didn't seem to enjoy himself much last time, but Mark Fuhrman wants another day in court. The Los Angeles police detective has filed a $50 million libel suit against the New Yorker and writer Jeffrey Toobin for a July 1994 article he says exposed him to "hatred, contempt and ridicule." The article explored his psychological records and quoted O.J. Simpson's lawyers calling him a "rogue...
...proverb goes, "It's never too late to mend." McNamara is still the man. We would never expect him to come out to face contempt and criticism. And, rationally speaking, it makes little sense to go all the way back to that tumultuous period with the same indignation felt by the whole nation 20 years...