Word: outlawful
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...boosters are quick to point out that theirs is hardly the only football team to suffer such losses, which is true. But because this is the University of Miami - whose football team's outlaw reputation prompted Sports Illustrated 12 years ago to call for the program to be shut down amidst a corruption scandal totaling more than $600,000 - it's hard not to ask if the tragedies somehow stem from the reckless culture that coaches and administrators have too often indulged. The team rocketed to prominence in the 1980s by showcasing what fans and critics alike called thug-ball...
...them is really playing Dylan. They're playing fictions named Jude and Billy and so forth, each of them a fictionalized aspects of the icon's life and the problems he has encountered living it. The black lad represents the soulful yearnings of his art, Gere plays his outlaw impulses, while others engage with his romantic and marital difficulties. Blanchett does him at the height of drug and celebrity-addled fame, which Haynes largely shoots in a Fellini-like manner (at one point she is obliged to wrestle around with the Beatles), which may not be the wisest possible choice...
...July 2006, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court validated proposed constitutional amendments that would outlaw same-sex marriage, opening the door to a possible referendum that could overturn the 2003 ruling by re-defining marriage in the Commonwealth...
...Bush administration acknowledged in late 2005 that it had been listening to conversations between suspected terrorists overseas and people in the U.S. without obtaining a court warrant, Democrats started debating privately what to do about the so-called warrantless wiretapping. They quickly split into three camps: one wanted to outlaw the unsupervised surveillance, another preferred to rewrite the law to okay the practice, and a third just wanted to punish the White House for overreaching...
...with a golden angel. It is hard to imagine a starker contrast between this gracious eatery and the ravaged villages of Darfur, yet among the diners here is a man who could hold the key to peace in the devastating conflict in western Sudan. "The Sudan regime is an outlaw regime," Abdul Wahid el Nur, leader of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement, shouts, slamming his fist on the cafe table. "They do not respect peace accords...