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...side, and she may be right. According to a recent opinion poll, the number of Serbs who support the war crimes Tribunal rose 15 percent after the release of the tape, with almost half of Serbia now supporting an institution long dismissed by many as a kangaroo court to victimize Serbs. And on Monday, for the first time, Serbia's president will take part in Srebrenica commemoration...
...makings of a solid spy thriller. The protagonist is a brilliant but troubled physicist who flirts with the Communist Party and then does top-secret government work on the atomic bomb. Along the way, there are love affairs, a suicide, illegal wiretaps, vindictive former friends, and a kangaroo court. John le Carré could not have imagined a better story...
...There is no place for kangaroo courts or capital punishment in this country." PAUL MURPHY, Northern Ireland Secretary of State, condemning an I.R.A. offer to execute any of its members responsible for the murder of a Belfast man involved in a pub argument with alleged I.R.A. foot soldiers, an event that renewed calls for the group to disband...
...Summers’ apolitical remarks regarding women in the sciences has just been trumped. We turn to Tuesday’s Faculty meeting in its place. Slighting norms of civility, certain opportunistic members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have decided to rile the mob and convene the kangaroo court to put Summers—already downtrodden from his unjust beating by the media over the past month—on the hot seat...
...long brainstorming session, when he suggested “Job’oozle,” an amalgam of the words “job” and “bamboozle,” but was promptly shot down. While such head-scratchers as Blue Kangaroo and Yellow Snow were also considered, Solimine repeatedly advocated for the name Job’oozle until...