Word: dispassionately
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The return of dispassion--and the legislators' temporary retreat--is a welcome thing, especially for some students who think that in the ballyhoo of the Churchill case, politics has blurred the educational focus of college life even more than a keg party. "The university is losing, and students are losing...
Options abound in the Jude Law category this year. For fans of the classic, Talented Mr. Ripley-esque Jude, his roles in Closer and Alfie are the most likely award-winners. In both, he plays a slutty metrosexual who learns some important life lessons. He has sex with more women...
McCullough started with a joke, saying that he was happy to be at Harvard University, “which I look at with total dispassion, having gone happily to Yale.”
Then the serious business of forgetting began. For decades Oklahoma history books made no mention of the riot. Police and state-militia documents disappeared. Tulsa went back to being a city so segregated that for years it used paychecks of different colors for its white and black teachers. In the...
Suppose that a murder is done without hatred. Suppose, for example, that Matthew Shepard's killers had been motivated merely to rob him, in a dispassionate sort of way - strictly business? Would that dispassion ("Sorry, Matt, but we can't have a witness...") earn the killers 10 or 15 years off their sentence - time off for good behavior? In any case, Matthew Shepard's killers have been condemned to death. Would the people of Wyoming, or the gay rights movement, feel any better if the men had been convicted of a hate crimes violation...