Word: unfitness
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...more damaging than any shot Miller has fired is the assault against North by party elders. Most adamantly opposed is John Warner, who along with some other Senate Republicans would rather not have the mercurial North as a colleague. North is so unfit to serve in Congress, Warner says, that a "Republican white knight" should enter the race as an independent if North gets the nomination. Warner and his colleagues also elicited a letter from Reagan, for whom North lied to Congress and shredded key documents, attacking North's account of Iran-contra -- particularly North's published assertion...
Keegan shares the usual civilized revulsion at war: a richly knowledgeable antipathy in his case. His gaze is clear, steady and morally complicated. He has been drawn all his life to military culture and the subject of war. Complications from a teenage case of tuberculosis left him lame, unfit for military duty. But he went on to teach military history at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy, for many years -- a soldier's life by association, at an intellectual remove...
...staff members also called Dorot Professor of Archaeology of Israel Lawrence Stager, the museum's director, an unfit choice to chair the committee...
...words are traditional; their relationship is not. Sharon was declared "an unfit parent" last week by Henrico County Circuit Court Judge Buford Parsons Jr. His one reason: she is a lesbian...
...live quietly, unobtrusively. When gay parents do face custody or visitation battles in court, the outcome is apt to vary from state to state -- indeed, from judge to judge or from social worker to social worker. Virginia is one of just four states where legal precedent deems gay parents unfit (Arkansas, Missouri and North Dakota are the others), and even Judge Parsons granted Sharon a weekly visit, ensuring she would remain a presence in Tyler's life. Only New Hampshire and Florida categorically bar gays as adoptive parents; in the nation's capital, by contrast, local officials held a seminar...