Word: wrongful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brighter Future Your article "Joburg Gets It Together" tells South Africans more about the positive developments taking place in Soweto than our own media does [Aug. 24]. For some reason our society constantly and greedily demands to know about what is wrong, while disregarding or belittling everything that is positive. Our homemade prophets of doom shake their heads and try to convince us that we are heading for a failed and shameful 2010 World Cup. It is also true, though, that the new black élite, beneficiaries of the Black Economic Empowerment, have joined the white élite and have...
...politician. A keen runner and cyclist, Rasmussen has been known to invite Facebook friends (he has 34,636 of them) to exercise with him. He has remade his Facebook page in English, and says he wants to use it to give NATO a human face. There's nothing wrong with that. But his new job requires him to do a lot more than be friendly and accessible. To make sure NATO survives another 60 years, Rasmussen will have to get tough...
...What are we doing wrong? European countries have been able to achieve faster speeds by forcing telephone companies to rent lines to local Internet service providers for use with broadband DSL. The Federal Communications Commission attempted to do the same during the middle of the decade to allow competition, but it had to back down from this practice after phone companies threatened to sue. Worse, the FCC and the courts allowed SBC to buy both AT&T and Bellsouth in 2005 and 2006, creating a huge monopoly that rivaled AT&T of the 1980s. Lack of competition...
...numerous runs including an 8-0 streak towards the beginning of the final set.“It was a formative weekend for us,” Durwood said. “We faced adversity and had chances to come together to figure what was going wrong.”—Staff writer Emmett Kistler can be reached at ekistler@fas.harvard.edu...
...whose largely liberal faculty had retreated from government during the Bush administration. One audience member asked Kagan what it was like to battle with Justice Antonin Scalia, referring to a tense moment during an argument before the Court on Wednesday. “Well, uh, he was wrong,” she said in the rather forced tone of a once free-spoken academic. —Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu...