Word: contemptibly
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...court's legitimacy, and challenged the presiding judge any time it was suggested that Saddam was no longer head of state in Iraq. Time and again, he got in the face of chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amein, a Kurd, over how he should be addressed, never hiding his contempt for the proceedings: "This court is false and whatever is built on a false basis is false," he said once, after being asked to identify himself. "I am the president of the Republic of Iraq." He took umbrage when the judge suggested he was, in fact, the "former" president of Iraq...
Miller had spent nearly two months in jail on civil contempt-of-court charges when negotiations between the two camps resumed. Another Miller lawyer, Robert Bennett, picked up the phone on Aug. 31 to call Tate. Bennett told TIME that the Miller camp had received an indication from a third party that it might be a good time to approach Libby with a new request to personally waive the confidentiality agreement. It took Miller's lawyers a month, till Sept. 29, to hammer out the details with Libby and Fitzgerald. A legal source told TIME that Fitzgerald gave both camps...
...only the subpoena against Miller. (The notes she gave up were redacted to omit discussions about anything other than Plame.) In the Cooper case, the prosecutor went after e-mails and other information stored on computers owned by Cooper's employer, Time Inc., which was subpoenaed and held in contempt when it refused to turn over the documents. That decision rested with Time Inc. editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine, who, after fighting the prosecutor all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court (it declined to hear the case), eventually decided to honor the subpoena last July. Soon after, Cooper...
...steps necessary to free Miller from her imprisonment. And there was the possibility that Miller was looking at more time in jail than she had bargained for. Although Fitzgerald is expected to finish this month, he has no obligation to do so. He could have boosted Miller's civil contempt charge to a criminal one or shifted the probe to a new grand jury, a step that could have meant more jail time for Miller...
...from the cash drawer of a bank, he is so conscience-stricken that he returns the money before closing time. Fred Wagner, a copywriter for a mail-order catalog and a would-be novelist, is the sort of wimp whose wife of four years would leave him out of "contempt for his habitual failure to claim justice from the petty tyrants of quotidian life." One day he discovers that he can simply will himself, and anything he is touching, into invisibility and back again. This gift enables him to learn more than he wants to know about other people...