Word: remarkable
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...Overturning a district court decision in Saxe v. State College Area School District, Alito boldly defended the students’ first amendment rights in non-school-sponsored speech. In Williams v. Price, he granted a writ of habeas corpus to a black prisoner when a juror made a racist remark after the trial, which emphasized the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. Alito also authored a unanimous decision in Police v. City of Newark, ruling against a law that require police officers to shave their beards, because such laws violate officers’ civil liberties...
...their first big official outing as a married couple. They will attend a seminar on youth enterprise at the U.N., see President Bush for a fancy White House dinner, probably inspect clean-up work in New Orleans and visit organic farms near San Francisco. No remark, no camera angle that can be nailed down in advance has been left to chance, but the tabloids sending their reporters on his plane (at $11,000 apiece) are on high gaffe alert. Will Charles, who asked 12 years ago, "How can any realistic person not take the threat of global warming seriously...
...sum writing and self-presentation. A favorite tutorial she conducted focused on the dos and don'ts of e-mails. Drawing on her own experience, she offered anecdotes of disastrously funny mistakes--like hitting REPLY to a Listserv message, not realizing everyone in the office would read a catty remark about a colleague. "You're teaching these women about relationships in the workplace," Ramsden says. "I can see the difference I make...
...assertion that "at many schools it is now profoundly uncool to be seen as anti-gay" is extremely misleading. Not a single day passes without my hearing "Dude, you're a fag" or some other gratuitous homophobic remark. America's schools are not gay-friendly...
...says Hinkle. “You can miss so many little things if you don’t take in a film the way filmmakers intended you to see it.” Matt Cowal of Landmark Theatres, which operates the Kendall Square Cinema, was quick to remark that attendance is down this year at all theatres, and that this larger cultural shift in film habits may be at least partly responsible for the hurt felt by the Brattle. The influx of convenient home video services like Netflix—which make varied film libraries all the more readily available...