Word: dogma
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...front of him. "He'll ask very penetrating questions, not to demonstrate his intellect, as some judges do, but to penetrate your thoughts," says veteran New Jersey attorney Donald Robinson. More important, those same people testify to Alito's methodical, open-minded approach to deciding cases, one free of dogma and much passion, for that matter. Not only is Alito very careful to follow existing precedent--as he did in invalidating a statute restricting late-term abortions that didn't include an exception for the health of the mother--but he has also shown he is capable of seeing...
GLORIA ESTEFAN AND NOELLE Book: The Magically Mysterious Adventures of Noelle the Bulldog Breeds: Conga hitmaker and English bulldog Dogma: Got a unique face? Discover your inner beauty...
PARIS HILTON AND TINKERBELL Book: The Tinkerbell Hilton Diaries (by author D. Resin) Breeds: Improbably famous blond and teacup Chihuahua Dogma: Life in a heiress's armpit isn't as glamorous as it looks...
CINDY ADAMS AND JAZZY Books: The Gift of Jazzy and (in 2006) Living a Dog's Life Breeds: New York Post's gossip yapper and Yorkshire terrier Dogma: Sly and Liza are cool, but the best friends come with...
...this community because of their supposed lack of exceptional Harvard academic standards. This type of bigotry might appear to have an attenuated connection to the explicit, religious-based exclusion of Jews, but the overall goal of discrimination certainly resonates from these two examples. It is now all but dogma, and rightfully so, that discrimination is elitist and goes against the accepting values on which Harvard relies—values formulated in the cultural upheaval of the 1960s...