Word: properer
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However slippery and accommodating his nature, Prime Minister Tony Blair (Julian Sands) is still a proper Brit. He wants to traverse the road to the invasion of Iraq in rational steps--lots of jaw-jaw at the United Nations before war-war begins. President George W. Bush, played with implacable self-righteousness by Keith Carradine, is of a different mind. As imagined by David Hare in Stuff Happens, the only voice Bush hears or heeds belongs to God, who is in a bellicose mood. Both recent history and the laws of dramaturgy tell us, even before the beginning...
...stand for the playing of the U.S. national anthem. His head and beard are shaved. He is returned to his original interrogation booth. A picture of a 9/11 victim is taped to his trousers. Al-Qahtani repeats that he will "not talk until he is interrogated the proper way." At 7 a.m. on Dec. 4, after a 12-hour, all-night session, he is put to bed for a four-hour...
...Tribe’s case, Summers and HLS Dean Elena Kagan acknowledged in April that a “significant lapse in proper academic practice” had occurred...
...this ambiguous environment, the question of intent becomes a crucial issue in determining proper punishment for misconduct...
...Board, writes in an e-mail that “intent is a factor the Board considers, certainly, although it’s a rare student who tells us he or she intended to plagiarize, and we do hold students accountable for knowing the basic rules of the proper use of sources...