Word: outliers
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...narrow minaret. Other regular worshippers agreed that he never spoke to anyone and usually rushed off immediately once the service ended. Many are suspicious of the charges against Zazi but say that, if true, Najibullah Zazi could not possibly have been indoctrinated in Denver. "He was like an outlier," says a mosque official who didn't want his name used. "This is a community that is very close, and if al-Qaeda were active here, we would know about...
...Citigroup results indicate continued deterioration on the credit side," says Christopher Whalen, managing director of research firm Institutional Risk Analytics. "Citi is an outlier in terms of loss rates, above Bank of America and Wells Fargo...
Youn finds that "fears that Judge Sotomayor is an 'activist' or 'outlier' or 'out of the mainstream' have no basis in her record of constitutional cases." Instead, Youn argues, her judicial profile is "very much in line with her colleagues." The study gives a brief overview of the term "judicial activism" and explains how it has been saddled with negative connotations since Marbury v. Madison established the court's power of judicial review in 1803. Specifics of the cases reviewed aren't available in the report, but the study nonetheless paints a good statistical portrait of what might be expected...
...department may have violated the First Amendment when it fired a police officer for his racist, anonymous speech. And in Hayden v. Pataki (2006), Sotomayor said that a New York State law barring felons from voting violated the federal Voting Rights Act. Sotomayor does not appear to be an outlier in race cases, although she seems to have no overarching theory about how to decide them. For that reason, she seems unlikely, in the short term, to affect the balance on the Roberts Court in cases involving race. At the moment, the court is divided among four color-blind conservatives...
...George Tiller was a mass murderer," said the antiabortion extremist Randall Terry after the doctor was murdered in the lobby of his church. But Terry was an outlier. Most of the pro-life movement reacted with appropriate horror - and the talking heads who had exploited the Tiller situation, like Bill O'Reilly, were subdued for a change...