Word: disinterestedly
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...solution is independent prosecutors; the only way you will get a sense of disinterest in the criminal justice system is to have state prosecutors," said Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. "I have not seen yet an effective local prosecution where a person has died as a result of a questionable police shooting." In fact, the only time in New York City when a police officer was actually convicted in the shooting death of an innocent civilian was in the 2003 death of Ousmane Zongo, an immigrant who was unarmed when police shot...
...universally terrible outcome, particularly for the Iraqi people. The suggestion that withdrawing troops would bring peace is thus a dangerous fiction. Worse still is the suggestion that it would save lives or increase American legitimacy in the region. Withdrawal simply subjects Iraq to America’s imperial disinterest and will allow far more terrible forces of desolation to overtake its people.Such a clever and evidently capable Democratic candidate can do enormously better on foreign policy, but until he proves otherwise, Obama should be identified as an isolationist and a threat to the many gains in security achieved recently...
...education initiatives. But Mattison said he was still unimpressed with Harvard’s efforts to work with the community, citing the Charlesview relocation project—an ongoing subject of negotiations between Harvard and the community since 2003—as evidence of the University’s disinterest in building community relations. “It’s a huge project and Harvard’s bending over backwards to refuse to have any involvement in planning it,” Mattison said. “Until we see Harvard cooperating on a project like that with...
...directly copying Gmail. “It’s not ripping off Google,” said Alex B. Lipton ’11. Facebook declined to comment about the new chat feature and Google did not return requests for comment yesterday evening. Several students expressed general disinterest in Facebook’s latest addition. “It doesn’t really affect me,” said Enrique R. Hernandez ’08 who said he does not use any online chat services. Tyler G. Hall ’11 said the new Facebook feature...
...This week’s appointment of Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies Evelynn M. Hammonds as Dean of Harvard College was greeted mostly with disinterest; students tend to ignore the vicissitudes of administrative hiring...