Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal bench, they'd better start upholding some death penalties. When a case is hard, as Judge White found Missouri v. Johnson, and when the defendant's right to a new trial is unclear, how will those judges decide? The perverse political incentives make it seem inevitable that a defendant who may not deserve the death penalty will some day receive it because the judges are too afraid to strike it down...
...adds that Asian-Americans in particular have been successful at increasing their ranks in academia, but seem to lack a presence in senior administration...
...Most wanted to go on to professional school and make money or do good in a big way," he says. "An office in University Hall does not seem to appeal to our upwardly mobile students...
Daly knows that their work, first published last year in England, is hard for some people, particularly nonacademics, to handle. "One thing that has fascinated and puzzled us is the fact that people don't seem to like this finding. I'm not sure what that's about," he says. "Stepfamilies are conflictual. Everyone who studies them knows that. But there's a widespread feeling that somehow to make too big a deal of it or to talk about that too much is exacerbating their problems instead of helping them." Still, he holds his ground. "Single parents might do well...
Also vanishing are the shock-value headlines that the old Enquirer once made infamous. Compared with "KILLS PAL AND EATS PIECES OF HIS FLESH," recent efforts like "DEMI TO WED!" seem a little pallid. And when a Star staffer member was fired recently for getting into a fracas with the L.A. police while pursuing a story, tabloid veterans shuddered. Not so long ago, the reporter might have been given a bonus...