Word: sways
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...lawyers, approached by the nonprofit Innocence Project, spent thousands of pro bono hours conducting interviews, gathering documents and asking experts to compare the confessions of the sailors with the crime-scene evidence. What the team compiled was a laundry list of inconsistencies that it hopes will be enough to sway Warner just as the Governor is about to leave office and possibly make a run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Warner just last week spared the life of death-row inmate Robin Lovitt, citing the destruction of DNA evidence that might have cleared his name. But with no looming execution...
...Harvard professors’ brief could still sway the justices—even if FAIR doesn’t raise the point. The dean of George Mason University School of Law and a prominent Solomon Amendment supporter, Daniel D. Polsby, wrote in an e-mail, “I would not be surprised if the Dellinger brief came up at oral argument.” (The lead counsel on the Harvard faculty brief is actually a Duke University professor, Walter E. Dellinger III, who served as the Justice Department’s top lawyer before the high court under President...
...discovery by U.S. forces of 173 prisoners at an Interior Ministry bunker. The majority of them were believed to be Sunni and several reportedly showed signs of torture or starvation. It has only increased the public perception that the Interior Ministry, which runs the police, is under the sway of a powerful Shi'ite faction. The head of the Interior Ministry is Bayan Jabr, a man reportedly with ties to the pro-Iranian Badr Corps, the military wing of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Although al-Jaafari berated him after the discovery was made public, Jabr...
...today being marketed throughout the Middle East.Barbie, for her part, has become the most grotesque form of our materialistic culture. She is a doll whose disproportionate features, skimpy clothing, and overemphasized fondness for acquiring accessories make her an exponent of a decadent Western culture that holds regrettable sway over young girls.Suppose Fulla was hijacked by radical elements of the Islamic world. Suppose they, on top of the materialism inherent in the doll, had her espouse all sorts of the craziest ideas one witnesses in the Middle East, only in the lingo of Barbie.So just as Talking Barbie might exclaim...
...rewinds through time, with Jamie narrating the relationship from its beginning to its end while Catherine recounts the relationship in reverse, from the breakup to their first kiss. The two reveries intersect only briefly at the middle—just long enough for Jamie and Catherine to kiss, sway, and say, “I do.” This circular structure leaves little room for serious character or plot development, and the audience doesn’t glean much beyond the basic facts. We learn that he’s a talented and popular young writer with...