Word: vocalized
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...especially one from Texas, Earle is unusually vocal about his doubts. But many other prosecutors share his mix of philosophical support for the death penalty and nagging uncertainty about which cases are right for it. "When I first became prosecutor and had a death-penalty case, I looked forward to it ... Now I get one and dread it," says Stanley Levco, who has been the prosecuting attorney in Vanderburgh County, Ind., since 1991. Levco strongly backs capital punishment, but he says capital cases take so long and cost so much that he wonders which ones are really worth...
...Chan, 63, would easily win the job if the Chief Executive were chosen through popular vote. The territory's Chief Secretary during the last British Administration and during Tung's first term, the always cool and elegant-looking Chan is widely known as "Hong Kong's conscience" for her vocal defense of the city's autonomy and desire for full democracy
...discretion Franklin differed from his countrymen, who almost universally found the Paris posting a Calvary and who were vocal on the subject. One swore he would prefer a farm in America to a dukedom in France. Adams wailed that he would rather be a doorman in Congress. Among his torments was Franklin himself, who understood that some American qualities--piety, earnestness, efficiency--did not go far in 18th century France. Franklin remained at all times a pragmatist and an astonishingly flexible thinker. He was realistic about the prospects of conducting business in a land of radically different habits...
...more?for their outspoken ways. In the mid-'80s, Jun Pala, a firebrand radio host in the southern Philippine city of Davao had his program interrupted when an assailant shot him in the recording booth. The gunman was believed to be a communist insurgent, angry at Pala's vocal anticommunist stance. This year, Pala was shot at again, this time by men in police uniforms. Although Pala escaped unscathed, two of his bodyguards were seriously injured. A fellow Filipino radio broadcaster wasn't so lucky. The same day Pala was attacked, John Villanueva, a procommunist talk show host from...
...Duncan as the most indifferent, boring superstar in all of professional sports. Sure, Duncan may not scowl and talk trash, lose his cool, get in his coach's face, or skip practice. But as unassuming and stoic as he sometimes appears, Duncan has emerged this year as a vocal leader as passionate and confident about winning as legends like Michael Jordan or Larry Bird. After the Spurs lost to the Lakers in last season's playoffs for the second year in a row, Duncan himself admitted that he "should have been a little more selfish" and taken control of more...