Word: rottenness
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...civil rights days, and Byrd's killing has moved things along even further. Shortly before jury selection, 75 blacks and whites met at the cemetery to cut down the wrought-iron fence that separated the two races even in death. "Give us the power and the strength through this rotten and broken fence to repair the fences in our own lives," prayed the Rev. Ron Foshage of St. Michael's Catholic Church...
PARIS: The buck stops with Juan Antonio Samaranch. The International Olympic Committee president is answerable to no one, and that may make it hard for him to keep his job. "He's a part of the whole rotten system," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. "He may not have personally accepted bribes, but he either turned a blind eye or else failed to properly oversee Olympic decision-making...
...branches of government worshipping together for only the second time in history, and the most momentous thing about it was that it seemed to many people less important than the fact that the Dow nuzzled 9600, the NBA season was salvaged and the weather in most places turned rotten...
...have seen the tenure review system work unfairly against too many people. It becomes more distressing every time it happens. There comes a point where, even at the risk of being ridiculed within the Harvard community, I have to stand up and say something. The tenure review system is rotten, rooted in tyranny. It rests the credibility of Harvard on the unexplained, unarticulated, unreviewable judgment of a single man. It should be changed...
...political plague year just passing. We needed Mark McGwire in 1998, needed him desperately. He couldn't banish the stain of sleaze that leached through our public life this year, nor could he restore civility to our discourse or turn the media's attention to rotten schools or Serbian brutality. He is, after all, only a baseball player...