Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest difficulty for Mr. Bisharat lies with the Israeli commissions's finding and recommendations. Mr. Bisharat calls the recommendations "mild" in the face of "these crimes against humanity." Are the latter words meant to suggest that the only satisfactory remedy for him is, as Arafat wants, a Nuremburg-type tribunal to judge the complicity of Israel in "war crimes?" If so, and if an unbiased tribunal were to be convened, then surely he would agree that Arafat and his PLO colleagues would be, as Alan Dershowitz has said, the first defendants because of their systematic killings of civilians over more...
...Phoenix. Among his previous credits: performing triple-bypass surgery on Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater last year. Diethrich's co-star and patient was Bernard Schuler, 62, a retired insurance salesman, who spends his winters in an Arizona trailer park. Schuler, a smoker for 41 years, had suffered a mild heart attack in 1977. A continued buildup of fatty deposits in his coronary arteries made him a prime candidate for a more serious second attack. Schuler's physicians recommended coronary bypass surgery, in which a blood vessel, taken from the leg or elsewhere in the body, is used...
...sense of moral unease with the reaction to the Commission report can only be heightened when the gravity of the crimes committed is measured against the mild recommendations of the Commission. Is the loss of a position within the government truly an adequate sanction for crimes against humanity...
...instigator of all this deviltry is Gerard Alessandrini, 29, a deceptively mild, cherubic-looking singer-composer who admits to having a lifelong crush on the musical theater. Though it may not seem so at first hearing, Forbidden Broadway is actually a love letter to the real thing. "Some people have said to me that there's a lot of anger in the material," says Alessandrini. "If so, I didn't realize it. What I hope comes through is our appreciation of Broadway. I'd gladly switch places with any of those people we spoof...
...foundations of U.S. law have actually been shaken, however, it has always been because ordinary law-abiding citizens took to skirting the law. Major instance: Prohibition. Recalls Donald Barr Chidsey in On and Off the Wagon: "Lawbreaking proved to be not painful, not even uncomfortable, but, in a mild and perfectly safe way, exhilarating." People wiped out Prohibition at last not only because of the alcohol issue but because scofflawry was seriously undermining the authority and legitimacy of government. Ironically, today's scofflaw spirit, whatever its undetermined origins, is being encouraged unwittingly by government at many levels. The failure...