Word: guts
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...campus and in the media protest against the reticent Harvard administration. With both Grant and Harvard remaining mute, both sides are left to rely on rumor and second- hand sources to assess the case. And we find debaters eliciting the image of Gina Grant that most agrees with their gut prejudices about the American judicial system...
...Tigers--who had beaten the Crimson in their last two meetings, including a gut-wrenching 4-3 win last year at Princeton--came in with a 1-2 league mark and an injury-plagued lineup...
...without parole is offered as an alternative to show that Cassell's argument was naive in the extreme. Politicians' effective use of the death penalty as a symbol for getting tough on crime shows that it, like abortion, is a hotbutton issue, one to which people respond from the gut. Dershowitz's earnest attempts to separate the system of implementation from the death penalty itself is useful for academics but probably irrelevant in the political arena...
...Americans drinks from a water system that violates public health standards. "We cannot take the safety of our drinking water for granted," Browner told a group of local officials. "More remains to be done." GOP House members want to do less. Hours earlier, a subcommittee voted to gut the long-sacred Clean Water Act, which protects lakes, rivers and streams from pollution.TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompsonnotes that Browner, whom Republicans are now attacking for running a "partisan" EPA, is losing the fight. The water overhaul should pass the House in May, Thompson says, and theEndangered Species Act"likely...
With its relentless banality and gritty despair, director Lee Tamahori's debut film marches on with a mission irrespective of effete artistic considerations. There is no elegant dialogue or complex scene sequencing. Emotions come from the gut, unconscious of reason or purpose. The characters only know that life is rotten to the core, and that only good people can make it seem any better. It's just that simple; it's movie making by people who understand what destitute Maori relate to, and for precisely this reason, "Warriors" has been a smashing success...