Word: mightfully
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...committing. But what I noticed is that they were committing murders that were not, in any meaningful sense, different from the thousands of other murders that occur where the person isn't on death row. You have about 15,000 homicides a year in the U.S. And you might have 60 executions. There wasn't any rhyme or reason to which crimes were resulting in executions, other than the operation of what I consider to be insidious types of prejudice and just sheer randomness...
...hand an elected official the same lifetime power of potential tyranny you just stripped from Caesar or King Louis XVI. When American democracy was being formed, many of its founders, including Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, supported congressional term limits, "to prevent every danger which might arise to American freedom by continuing too long in office the members of the Continental Congress," as Jefferson wrote. (See why Washington is tied up in knots...
...curling for 40 years. Though the game began in 16th century Scotland, Holder explains how curling caught on in the prairies of western Canada; essentially, he says, there was nothing else to do. In Canada, the shiny bald dome of Kevin Martin, 43, the Canadian men's curling skip, might as well be this year's Olympic emblem. Since curling receives so much coverage on Canadian television, and the teams often play long games - more than two hours, twice a day - you're bound to catch a glimpse of Martin calling shots at some point. (See 25 Winter Olympic athletes...
...According to the parents of the American players, however, the rowdy Canadian fans might be taking things a bit too far. "I don't like when they cheer a missed shot," says Glen Isaacson, while watching his son Chris and his teammates fall to Canada 7-2 on Monday. "It violates curling etiquette. That's the part that makes it tough to watch...
...phone in Downing Street rings. The question British voters are asking themselves isn't just whether Gordon Brown has the vision and experience to answer that call. It's whether Brown might decide to hurl the phone at a hapless aide...