Word: dubiousness
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...course, if real issues do arise this year, both sides have created huge armies of lawyers ready to pounce on any dubious county board of elections with cuff links flashing. That should be enough to scare away even the nastiest of election-year demons...
California has the dubious distinction of ranking second, just behind Florida, in the number of lethal and nonlethal attacks against homeless people last year. It recorded 22, but, says Maria Foscarinis, executive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, the actual number of attacks is likely even higher because many are never reported. After a huge increase in 2006 - 65%, some of which is attributed to the video Bumfights, in which people who live on the street are pitted against one another - last year still saw an increase of 13%. Street people, says Foscarinis, live "outside, so they...
...Hamilton County will vote for than in finding out what kind of person votes a month before the election. To my shock, none of them told me they were voting early "to avoid old people." Equally surprising, no one found that question to be strange. The voters were, however, dubious about my professionalism when I asked whether "people sometimes call them anal"--though 36% said yes. Also, 36% had already done some Christmas shopping and their taxes, 44% applied early admission to college, and one-third had stamps on them. Two even said they don't carry stamps because they...
...insist on a reactionary return to a pedagogy that permits only dry book learning. (If anything, the students themselves would not tolerate such a regression.) And as an industry builds around the quest to glue young people to their TV screen, the least we can do is turn a dubious development in a more unambiguously positive direction. The educational games and interactive novels described in the Times report pass the Hippocratic test of viability as teaching tools: They, evidently, do no harm. But almost as important as a teaching model that successfully engages with children learning to read...
...disgustingly stupid, backyard-barbeque bigot George “Macaca” Allen in 2006, amid widespread discontent with the Bush Administration’s handling of the economy and Iraq. And a Harvard-educated, cerebral crypto-Muslim is a much harder sell, especially one with an ethnically dubious name...