Word: righteousness
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...lose, over, under - some say, "So what?" For all the righteous rhetoric from both sides and the hundreds of thousands of euros being spent on stickers and posters and flyers, the vote changes little for the 20 women each day who exercise their constitutionally protected right to travel for abortions. "It's an Irish solution to an Irish problem," says Eoin Ó Múrchú, a political correspondent for the Irish-language broadcaster Raidió na Gaeltachta. "We're happy to have abortion, as long as it's in England...
...firing of Muslim professor Sami al-Arian from the faculty of the University of South Florida because of his anti-Israel stand [SOCIETY, Feb. 4]: This firing is a violation of First Amendment rights, to say nothing about al-Arian's being a tenured professor. When self-righteous citizens like the university president who dismissed al-Arian disregard the law and ignore the Constitution because they disagree with an individual's opinion, they become the very terrorists they profess to abhor. PHIL WILT Van Nuys, Calif...
...stripes are dispatched with terse one-liners. “Consider that a divorce,” he grunts as he blows away Sharon Stone in Total Recall. Talk is for the weak; Arnold acts. And punches and shoots and pulverizes. Like an Old Testament God, he seethes with righteous indignation, raining fire, brimstone and heavy artillery on everything evil...
...Skilling showed up in the lion's den because he thought he could run circles of deniability around Tauzin and his gang. He got in some convincingly righteous sparring with hopped-up committee members, and mostly blamed his apparent ignorance of anything rotten in the state of Enron on the difficult, highly delegatory task of running a large and complex international energy corporation. And when that didn't fly with the committee - and it surely didn't - Skilling merely pled more ignorance that Enron's house of cards was ever going to fall...
...squares its outrage at al-Qaeda fighters now in detention with standards of international law it has long espoused. For most Europeans, the virtuous course seemed clearly marked by the Geneva Conventions. In France and Italy, though, murkier struggles between government leaders and recalcitrant judiciaries showed that finding the righteous path can be a matter not just of principle, but of political dispute...