Word: lames
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...camps, such as over the fate of thousands of Sunni detainees in Iraqi jails the National Accordance Front wants freed. But a new reality is emerging that may factor into the thinking of potential political allies the Prime Minister is courting: Maliki is looking more and more like a lame duck as October elections in Iraq approach...
...South Africa is the neighbor with the most leverage over Zimbabwe because of economic ties, but President Mbeki has stuck fast to his policy of "quiet diplomacy," refusing to apply visible pressure on Mugabe. Still, Mbeki's political marginalization within his own party, which made him a lame duck when it chose his arch-rival Jacob Zuma as ANC president last December, has emboldened critics of his Zimbabwe policy. Trade union members in the South African port of Durban refused to offload a Chinese ship carrying armaments for the Zimbabwean government. The vessel, having also been denied entry to Mozambique...
...Justice Antonin Scalia's solo opinion insisted that courts should not decide these issues; legislatures should. Justice John Paul Stevens, while agreeing that the case at hand was lame - since lethal injection is entirely designed NOT to be cruel and there is skimpy evidence that this theoretically possible kind of agonizing execution has ever actually happened - urged precisely the opposite. He would like for the Supreme Court to reconsider the entire death penalty and find the whole thing cruel and unusual. Like former justices Harry Blackmun, Lewis Powell and Sandra Day O'Connor before him, Stevens has concluded...
Preval, who called the Senate vote on Alexis unjust, must now present a new candidate to parliament. Meanwhile, the government is in a lame duck position, with all current cabinet ministers, as well as other secretaries of state in appointed positions, reduced to caretakers. It could be some time before the lawmakers approve a new candidate since there is no majority party in the legislature...
...tune in every Sunday afternoon and Monday night. From the start, Leitch’s oversight of the thousands of sports fans who don’t fit this pigeonholing description alienates readers like me. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Leitch addresses this audience in a hopelessly juvenile style. The jokes are lame, the asides irrelevant, the word choice beyond bizarre. (I still can’t get over my shock at seeing the word “anal-raping” in print. See? Shocking.) Leitch’s personal anecdotes are at once amusingly self-deprecating and annoyingly self-aggrandizing...