Word: laud
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...fact that so many in the legal community, on both sides of the political aisle, laud Alito as a serious, fair legal thinker not given to overarching theories or ideological tantrums is bad enough for the Democrats. And his record of protecting freedom of expression doesn't help matters. Also, it's pretty hard to demonize a man who regularly donned a uniform when coaching Little League and once spent a week of vacation at the Philadelphia Phillies fantasy baseball camp. The White House, says Democratic strategist Joel Johnson, "has accomplished the task of getting beyond the base problem...
...heavily polluted water that has inundated the streets of New Orleans, a once-vibrant city. Even though the refugees are being evacuated, the streets are being drained, and the corpses are being removed, it still seems slightly impious to speak of a bright side or a silver lining. To laud anything good that has happened, any mitigating factors, seems to make light of the enormity of the whole disaster, to disrespect the dead, to spit upon the newly homeless with an air of moldy optimism...
...haven for Sunni insurgents, earning the nickname "Baghdad's Fallujah." There's little love lost between Adhamiya and Sadr City, the giant Shi'ite slum whose residents made up the majority of the victims. At Adhamiya's ancient Abu Hanifa mosque, close to the Bridge of Imams, sermons routinely laud the jihadis who have been killing Shi'ite civilians and curse the Shi'ite-dominated government. Yet on Wednesday, the yellow-brick mosque became a makeshift triage station for emergency crews and a lost-and-found center for pilgrims separated from their loved ones in the stampede...
While environmentalists generally laud these efforts, corporate pledges to go green tend to be the first casualties when business gets tough, and enviros often criticize the promises as "greenwash"--really, business as usual. In 2000, Ford Motor lit up the Birkenstock crowd by promising to improve SUV fuel economy 25% by 2005; three years later, the firm reneged amid a steep sales slump and $6.4 billion in losses. Ford has started issuing reports on its environmental impact and is taking steps to address global warming. But nowhere in the publicity efforts do you hear that the firm is part...
...recipients as Yo-Yo Ma ’76, Jack Lemmon ’47, and John Updike ’54. Sixty-two years after a cocky English Department instructor told Kumin, “don’t write any more poems,” the University laud her for disregarding Stegner’s advice...