Word: contemptible
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...with little effect. All week long the phone lines between Tokyo and Washington buzzed with American apologies?from President George W. Bush and a host of senior officials. But the man at the other end of the line, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, himself is lacking credibility. "He is beyond contempt," says Yoshifumi Oshita, 26, a graduate of the Uwajima Fisheries High School. "I want the Japanese government to make a proper complaint to America but I don't think Mori...
Institutionally, this "do-good" program is isolated from the "regular" curriculum, and it is graded pass-fail. Students therefore treat it with overt contempt. Where regular classes are characterized by active, engaging class discussion (class participation typically accounts for 50 percent of one's grade), S&E classes were characterized by long periods of blank silence. Where regular classes are characterized by unanimous participation (skipping classes in the business school is a severely punishable no-no), S&E classes saw students leave to interview at investment banks...
...Coriolanus says, we "bring in the crows to peck the eagles." The crows of the media; the crows of correctness. There's something bracing about his exhilarating contempt. It's what we miss now: not mere radio ranting, but efficacious and inner-directed contempt...
Frustrated Democrats complained of "confirmation conversion," particularly by Ashcroft. As Missouri's attorney general, he once risked a contempt-of-court citation for not enforcing school desegregation. But during four days of hearings he invoked Bobby Kennedy as a role model. "It seems there are two Ashcrofts," said Democratic Senator Charles Schumer. Even Republicans were surprised, according to Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, that Ashcroft seemed "so willing" to enforce laws he had previously opposed...
...actions only made Clinton cockier. The President had suffered the ignominy of impeachment and a contempt of court finding, but now he was spinning hard, bragging in interviews that he had defended the Constitution by standing up to overzealous prosecutors. Ray knew he had to get Clinton's attention. In July he empaneled a new grand jury, and after the November election, called in Lewinsky for questioning, increasing pressure on Clinton to cut a deal. If there was going to be a settlement, he wanted it before Clinton left office. About three weeks ago, he asked Kendall for a meeting...