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Part of what has made Mansfield such a celebrity on campus is not the substance of his conservative views, but his willingness to spout them without tact...
...relief Morgalis cites is the Kangaroo Court that the team’s seniors set up to extract “fines” to fund an end-of-season celebration. Morgalis has had his share of penalties because of the “stupid sayings” that spout so readily from his mouth...
...also declined to be drawn into abstract discussions about his judicial philosophy. Not every good lawyer or judge has a “judicial philosophy,” nor should they be required to have one. This is professors’ stuff, and forcing practical men and women to spout pretentious platitudes on these subjects serves no useful purpose. As has been shown time and again, answers to such questions are not even good predictors of actual judicial performance. Certainly subjecting Estrada to such a sophomoric inquisition is not necessary to assure the Senate of Estrada’s competence...
...listen before we speak. As contributors to the opinion pages we should strive to be more empathetic. If we—hundreds of thousands of miles away from the Temple Mount—can’t bring ourselves to try to see the other side before we spout our opinions, how can we ever hope for peace in the Middle East...
...their most potent weapon?their ability to fix prices?and turned it against them. One of the most stubborn vestiges of the Japanese government's protectionist bent is its 89-year-old saihan law, which makes it illegal to sell new books at a discount. The law's defenders spout a host of muddled rationales for preserving it, arguing variously that it promotes literacy or protects copyrights or maintains the intellectual integrity of the nation's literary output. This in a country where 37% of all books sold are comics. In practice the law has fostered the petrifaction...