Word: squeamish
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...state--one of 10 to have ordered a review of their death-penalty process--at the center of a growing national debate over the fallibility of capital punishment. Although polls show that Americans overwhelmingly believe in the moral righteousness of executing murderers for their crimes, they turn squeamish at the thought of an innocent's being punished for another's evil deeds. Thanks to DNA testing and other forensic advances, convictions are being overturned with increasing frequency...
...Giving Saddam one final chance to disarm was precisely the objective of those who most wanted to avoid war. If Saddam complies, Washington's primary casus belli is neutralized. If he refuses, even the allies most squeamish about being associated with a U.S.-led invasion will be able to show that they did everything possible to avoid a war, and that it was Saddam, rather than Washington, that chose to settle matters on the battlefield...
...conventional mother-child psychodrama that doesn't persuasively match up with the film's supernatural elements. You keep waiting for someone to explain who shot, edited and distributed the Bunuel-on-a-bad-day video. The result is an edgy, watchable film, but one that makes you feel more squeamish than screamish...
...Johnny in the Clair de Lune. (Falco covers up fairly quickly, but Tucci flounces around for another five minutes.) Now entering its third year off-Broadway is Naked Boys Singing, a musical revue that is pretty much what it sounds like. Then there's that loony off-Broadway novelty--squeamish readers might want to stop here--called Puppetry of the Penis, in which a pair of Australians manipulate their organs into bizarre shapes, while a video camera projects the results on a big screen...
...brutalization of one life justified if it could save thousands? According to a CNN/USA Today poll last fall, 45% of Americans surveyed supported torture to prevent attacks. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has endorsed the issuance of "torture warrants" in the rarest of instances. While ethicists remain squeamish at the prospect of torturing low-level al-Qaeda recruits who probably aren't privy to life-sparing information, the stakes may be different in Zubaydah's case. Anthony D'Amato, a professor at Northwestern University School of Law who has defended a doctor charged with genocide, finds torture legally reprehensible...