Word: verdicts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WHERE THINGS STAND A joint report by ABC News and TIME examines life in Iraq after Saddam. The verdict: if it's outside Baghdad, it's better...
Scarcely a day passed but what Paul was calling from some unlikely place. He phoned Hotch from racetracks, in between his races, on location while shooting Absence of Malice and The Verdict, from airports on his way to make speeches on behalf of the nuclear freeze movement. The overriding purpose of these phone calls was to get his dressing into a bottle, a bottle bearing the Newman's Own name on a proper label, a bottle that would allow us to thumb our noses at the naysayers. Paul had always been perverse about complacency. It was his theory that...
...just retraced the route report that the journey wasn't quite so epic. Ed Jocelyn and Andrew McEwen, two editors living in Beijing, spent 384 days following Mao's trail, consulting hundreds of villagers along the way for guidance in fording rivers and traversing the appropriate mountain passes. Their verdict: The army traveled about 6,000 kilometers, half the fabled distance. "People seem affronted [by the findings] and try to convince us we're wrong," says Jocelyn. But even at the shorter distance, it was a prodigious feat. "It was not a Short March," he says...
...Bolshevik takeover: Trotsky, Kamenev, Zinoviev. Never mind that Lenin, the real Mr. Big, was no more Jewish than Hohmann. Never mind that thousands of Jewish communists were purged and murdered by Stalin. The Jews had done it, and now to Hohmann's dialectical somersault: Of course, this verdict "may sound horrible," he mused, but after all, isn't this precisely the "same logic" that led to the stigmatization of Germany as a "nation of perpetrators?" For non-Germans, this screed cries out for decoding. The unspoken logic is this: if the Jews were as bad, or worse, than our forefathers...
...compendium of human responses over time,” he said. In his film as well, “the human story has a weight that is hopefully transformative. It’s a different form of text. It’s like a video Teshuva [rabbinic verdict...