Word: dismissals
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...antihero empathetic and therefore, they argued, made his beliefs attractive. Wrong. Archie Bunker spoke to a whole country engaged in a second American civil war, fighting bitterly in their own living rooms with people they loved nonetheless. If he was too unreconstructed to admire, he was too real to dismiss: if you could not see yourself, or at least someone you loved, in Archie Bunker, his performance would have been meaningless, a feel-good tonic for a few progressive troops...
...Monday, federal prosecutors responded by asking the courts to dismiss McVeigh's request for a stay, calling the convicted bomber "undeniably guilty." The government insists the new documents have no bearing on McVeigh's role in the deadly 1995 bombing...
...their duties with an open mind. Those who sympathize with PSLM should put aside the rhetoric that demonizes the administration and try to work for the best possible outcome for Harvard’s workers. By the same token, those who do not believe in wage floors must not dismiss the idea of a living wage out of hand...
President Bush swatted away pesky mosquitoes Monday as he spoke to a crowd gathered in the muggy and endangered Florida Everglades. Unfortunately for the businessman recently turned "new environmentalist," his critics won?t be as easy to dismiss...
...Berlusconi's supporters, mindful of the fact that the Italian economy has lately performed less well than most in Europe, dismiss the criticisms of their neighbors. He is, they argue, a man who gets things done, who will bring the smack of firm government to a nation that seems to need it. (Margaret Thatcher endorsed Berlusconi, and no government smacked more firmly than hers.) It would be nice to reply that economic prosperity depends on the trappings of constitutional liberalism. And there are examples where that seems to be true. Since 1989, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, the three...