Word: appealable
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...main appeal [of the panel] is the fact that this was a student- organized and initiated panel on one of the most important questions of the day," Sandel said in an interview after the panel...
...despite the Mint's efforts, local bankers say that the coin simply doesn't appeal to the general public...
...better example of this could be found than the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' repugnant Oct. 27 decision that the constitutional right to a lawyer is satisfied even if the court-appointed lawyer is asleep. The court rejected an appeal from the Texas courts in which the lawyer appointed to represent Calvin Burdine in a capital case had slept through a large portion of the trial. Although the facts were uncontested, and although other appeals courts have found that a sleeping lawyer is constitutionally equivalent to no lawyer at all, the 5th Circuit found that Burdine did not deserve...
...court is not the only one to blame--the state of Texas, after all, prosecuted the case and has continued to fight the appeal. The two reports, released by the Texas Defender Service and the Texas Civil Rights Project, show that such nightmare scenarios as a sleeping lawyer are anything but uncommon in the Texas legal system. The reports documented a system in which incompetent lawyers are regularly appointed to defend people on trial for their lives: one quarter of all those now on the Texas death row were represented by attorneys that have been disciplined, disbarred or suspended...
...streets are unlikely to listen to the cautionary advice of elders who they see as enfeebled by decades of Israeli occupation. In the face of their powerless parents, the "authority" projected by demagogues hawking martyrdom and the promise that sacrifice and confrontation will earn their freedom has an irresistible appeal for many young Palestinians. And, of course, parents may have a hard time stopping their children from doing what they themselves grew up doing - after all, the occupation began 33 years ago. Arafat should know better than anyone, because he was once a young rebel himself, rejecting the moderation...