Word: kangaroos
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...first time in 21 years, a machine shot from Earth once again stirred up the Martian dust. More important, for the first time ever, it was going to be able to keep stirring it up well after it landed. Curled up inside Pathfinder like a mechanical kangaroo joey was Sojourner, a 1-ft.-tall, 2-ft.-long robot car, known as a rover, designed to trundle away from the lander and investigate rocks all over the desert-like site...
JOHN MCDONOUGH Captain Kangaroo II. He's gentle and jolly, but what about that beard? No problem: kids will think he's Santa...
Most people think that Simpson was tried twice for the same crime and that he was found guilty the second time. A more apt name for the second trial would be kangaroo court. It brings to mind John Wayne's line as Marshal Rooster Cogburn, when he tells the bad guy that he'll get a fair trial and a fine hanging. RON FYTEN Pierz, Minnesota...
...accountability, since the Board's decisions are not publicized in any way. In short, the Ad Board is a civil libertarian's nightmare. Small wonder, then, that no less an authority than Frank furter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz once told The Crimson that he "would be insulting Kangaroos by calling [the Ad Board] a kangaroo court...
...reputation has been sullied most of all by its security force, which has suppressed internal opposition through mass arrests, brutal interrogation techniques and kangaroo courts. Human-rights activists who have complained of these abnormalities have found themselves in jail...