Word: unpopularity
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...case and his immortalization on “The Practice,” Zobel says he simply hopes to be remembered as “a judge...who was fair and who did his duty and decided matters without regard to whether or not the decision was popular or unpopular...
...speech and endured decades of torture [WORLD, May 5]. What a rare and brave woman! She should be recognized as a hero of our time. Shame on her family for abandoning her. May she be an inspiration to us all to always do the right thing, no matter how unpopular it is. I would like to think that our forefathers manifested a similar spirit when this country was established. MIMI COFFEY Fort Worth, Texas...
...written a breezy, anecdotal and occasionally poetic book. But it is too much of a tribute to really penetrate the psyches of men as complex and-in all probability-slightly disturbed as, say, Potter, who kept a duffel bag of guns and hand grenades in his Saigon apartment. Another unpopular war broke out as I finished reading Lost over Laos, and I suspect that's what gave it much of its resonance. So did the sudden, sobering thought that-with the never-ending war on terror taking journalist friends to ever more hostile places-I could conceivably find myself writing...
...starting to hit back with charges that it's Blair who is out of touch and undemocratic. Their weapon: the constitution now emerging from the European Convention. It's still being negotiated, but it's highly likely to boost Brussels' powers at the expense of member countries - a deeply unpopular proposition in the U.K. Unlike the euro, Blair insists he won't put the new constitution up for a national vote, supposedly because "it simply is nonsense to suggest that this fundamentally alters the nature of Britain as a nation state." But many E.U. countries, and almost all the countries...
...year when Summers largely avoided major controversy, he was careful to keep it that way. He declined to identify yesterday any mistakes he had made and distanced himself from unpopular moves within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...