Word: expression
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...Circuit Court of Appeals as an example of an ideologically divided panel that has managed to find its way back to civility. "It's not clear yet if John Roberts understands that that achievement requires the judges to give something up," Wittes says. "Namely, excess rhetoric." Even some Justices express concern on occasion. The newest of the nine, Alito, has confided that he finds the rhetoric dismaying, and he recently noted during a question-and-answer session at Pepperdine School of Law that it can be almost impossible to slip in a question among all the speechifying by his colleagues...
What is going on? Even in an era of connectedness, when such outrages are beamed into living rooms around the globe, the world's major powers can't seem to agree on what should be done or who should do it. While many foreign critics of the U.S. express relief at the erosion of American influence, events in Burma and Darfur show the downside of the U.S.'s diminished standing: a void in global human-rights leadership...
...would compromise the integrity of the exam, according to Cotton. Gary S. Katzmann, the state judge whose decision the supreme judicial court let stand, rejected the board’s argument, citing the potential for pain or medical injury if Currier were not given the extra time. Failure to express milk every two to three hours can lead to medical complications, such as breast engorgement, fever, or infection. The Board of Medical Examiners had already agreed to grant Currier a second day of test time because she has dyslexia and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Currier could not be reached...
Gary S. Katzmann, the state judge who awarded Currier the break time two weeks ago, rejected the board’s argument, citing the potential for pain or medical injury if Currier were not given the extra time. Failure to express milk every two to three hours can lead to medical complications, such as breast engorgement, fever, or infection...
...Anyone can express, without fear of legal reprisal, their political convictions, as extreme as they may be. And, in Cambridge, one has only to wander the Square on a seasonable afternoon to witness the excessive exercise of that right. Yet the difference between the La Rouche representatives or the parading union activists and Columbia University president Lee Bollinger—beside the Ph.D.—is that the affectionately-termed “Cambridge crazies” are not subsidized by American taxpayers. That is, unless they are on the dole as well...