Word: mocking
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...trading away Sammy Sosa from the Texas Rangers. Although he says he was quoted out of context, he was described in a profile as making fun of condemned murderer Karla Faye Tucker as if she were begging him to spare her life: "'Please,' Bush whimpered, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'Don't kill...
...demands of the students, like reading the labels on a vast array of prescription containers when you're wearing goggles, or counting out the daily ration of pills with fingers rendered numb by a sheath of glove rubber. Near the course's end, the students are placed in a mock nursing home, where other students, trained to act like ward attendants, fail to bring them their food, or shove spoonfuls of apple sauce into mouths rendered immobile by the marshmallows or ignore them altogether. "They wheeled me into a corner, and it was so hard to see and hear anything...
...George W. Bush, Texas has executed dozens of Death Row inmates whose cases were compromised by unreliable evidence, disbarred or suspended defense attorneys, meager defense efforts during sentencing and dubious psychiatric testimony." And that's just the lead. The New York Times shone the light on Ronald G. Mock, a picaresque Texas public defender who has a wing of the state's death row named after him. The portrait is flattering neither to Mock nor Bush's courts. A similar Tribune investigation prompted Gov. George Ryan's moratorium on executions in Illinois - but though Gov. Bush made a calculated sidestep...
...graduating senior on the Mock Trial Team recently donated $200 to both parts of the organization, according to James M. Hunter '01, director of the Pre-Law Society and also a Crimson editor...
...first, he showed mock disbelief, his hand caught in the cookie jar. Then his face turned purple and he looked ready to weep, and had to be escorted from the floor by the refs, whereupon he buried his face in a towel and refused to watch...