Word: righteouseness
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...Then the normal self-righteous response by the UC saying how students' interests weren't being taken into account, everyone will yell at everyone else, I will look at my watch, and 2 hours later we will be right back where we started," he said. "Dean Lewis will raise the term bill, and I support...
...Despite his righteous protestations, Boies faces a strictly uphill task. In order to convince a higher court to take the case, he'll have to prove that Judge Sauls abused his judicial discretion or misunderstood the law - charges jurists are loath to level against fellow members of the bench. And if that weren't enough pressure, the Florida Supreme Court knows that that the critical eyes of those black-robed Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will be watching their every move...
...gallery of movie posters hangs in his office at Icon Productions, his company with its headquarters on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. "The Man Without a Face:" Gibson in silhouette in the distance, the actor shadowed in his 1993 directorial debut. "Ransom:" closeup of Gibson, blue eyes blazing with righteous desperation. "Maverick:" James Garner, Jodie Foster and Gibson, all of them smiling, no doubt thinking about how much they were paid. On each poster, on each face, Gibson has added a mustache with a heavy black marker - a graphic display of his famously self-deprecating sense of humor. Foster...
...know I won't miss the sleaze: the selling of the Lincoln bedroom, the shakedowns of Chinese arms dealers and the after-hours frolics in the Oval Office. Nor will I miss the policies, from the self-righteous "gays in the military" gambit, to Hillary's baggy monster of a health care plan, to Clinton's recklessly risk-averse foreign policy, which conducted cowardly "virtual wars" from the skies above Belgrade and Baghdad, while coddling a tinpot dictator in Pyongyang and a collection of tyrants in Beijing. Nor, finally, will I miss the hangers-on and toadies who filled...
...choice? Don't make me laugh. This was a contest between corporate and corporate, self-righteous and self-righteous, military and military, executioner and executioner. Neither of these pandering career politicos offered our planet and our country the radical changes needed to save them. An instant-runoff voting system should be implemented by 2004 so that presidential candidates presenting a diversity of opinions can have a shot at winning. MIKE FLYNN Burlington...