Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson's breathless conclusion that these depositions "may prove to be significant new evidence in the case" is therefore wrong, and creates the erroneous impression that the depositions are news. In fact, the Crimson is eight months late in reporting these events--a fact that the story omits...
...marijuana use wrong? Most of the penitents who have rushed to confess to smoking dope have agreed that it is. "It was a mistake," said Babbitt. "I wish I hadn't," said Gore. "I hope that the young people of this country, including my own daughters, will learn from my mistake," said Ginsburg, withdrawing. Conversely, Columnist Tom Wicker, in a biting critique of the phony moralism and "sudden piety" of Ginsburg's attackers, felt compelled to preface his remarks about marijuana smokers by assuring his readers that "I am not now and never have been one of them...
...what way did Ginsburg or Gore or Claiborne Pell (a one-time, four- puff penitent) do wrong? The most obvious answer is that they willfully broke a law. True. But if what is at stake is respect for law, why the agitation about this particular law out of the thousands on the books, out of the dozens that every non-monastic citizen has broken at one time or another. If law is the issue, then the press ought to be asking public figures not "Have you ever smoked marijuana?" but "Have you ever broken the law, any law?" We could...
...prevent the predictably vast increase in use that would occur if you could get a pack of Acapulco Gold out of the machine that now gives you Kools. And non-prosecution is important because you don't persecute people for behavior that you find impossible to argue is morally wrong...
When the meeting adjourned Wednesday night, the summiteers broke into big smiles, predicting an early agreement. But something went wrong on Thursday. Griped William Gray of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House Budget Committee: "I think everybody in the room left last night thinking we were close." What were the sudden obstacles? "Everything," replied House Majority Leader Thomas Foley of Washington. The Democrats maintained that Howard Baker, the White House chief of staff, arrived at the meeting Thursday and under orders from Reagan retracted some concessions the Administration had made earlier. Baker denied that claim: "Anyone who tries to characterize...