Word: properness
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...United States refuses to set an example of humane and appropriate treatment, ensuring the proper legal protections and living conditions for its prisoners, we will lose our credibility at home and abroad. Without faith in the rightness of our cause, we are an even more vulnerable nation...
...Rock Steady," No Doubt's fifth album, finds the band impressively easing into its proper role as ambassador of a good time. "Hella Good," one of a number of tracks on the album produced by the accomplished Nellee Hooper (of late U2 and Bjork fame), sounds like an eighties roller-rink party. The good time flashbacks don't end there. "Don't Let Me Down," produced by Ric Ocasek, with its Cars-like bass line, spacey keyboards and layered vocals is the perfect melding of the best of what both the eighties and No Doubt have to offer...
...eccentricities of Milo Addica and Will Rokos' plot make the film seem like a bizarre sitcom pilot (racist guy with a black lady friend saddles his racist dad with a black roommate). But the cast is uniformly superb, and Marc Forster's attentive direction gives proper weight to each perplexing emotion. Strip away the strident melodrama, and you have this season's moodiest, most adult love story...
...last week, when 12 European nations rolled out the single currency euro notes and coins, those intrinsically cheap little tokens - inoffensively illustrated with maps or imaginary monuments - managed to make Europeans feel they were part of something rather grand. Maybe never one great nation, and not yet a proper state, but for once a real community...
Summers must also bear in mind the president’s proper role in tenure cases. The president has a great deal of power in Harvard’s complex tenure process, but he must wield it wisely. Departments can best judge the talent of scholars in their field. They can assess the candidates’ academic standing in the community, the quality of their work and their potential for new research in the years ahead. Specialists know their own, and Summers should heed their advice carefully in every case—especially when they speak unanimously...