Word: reactional
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...start, to pull over and allow teammate and World Championship leader Schumacher to win. But it was not for that fix that Ferrari had to pay up, it was for failing "to observe Article 170" of the sport's regulations, relating to the podium presentation. Hearing the crowd's reaction, Schumacher had pushed Barrichello up to the top step, embarrassing Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, who didn't know who should get the first-place trophy. What Ferrari should have been penalized for was the crass and cynical application of team orders. While the FIA "deplored the manner...
...that Newdow believes for a moment he has won. He shrugs off Washington's reaction to his case - "I?m disappointed in all of them. They all swore an oath to a God-free constitution,"- and fully expects to take his Sisyphian struggle up to the Supreme Court. There, of course, he plans to launch a separate campaign against the ceremonial opening words. "When they say 'God save this court,?" he says, "the first word out of my mouth will be 'objection!?" The half-dozen other suits he has in motion - against the family law, against Franklin Graham?s prayer...
...Graduate English Address by Law School degree candidate Avery W. Gardiner ’97 argued that “logic and analytical reasoning have their limits.” She spoke of her and her friends’ steely, logical initial reaction to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and compared those responses with her mother’s reaction of bursting into tears...
Beware of statements made in anger. According to White House officials, President Bush decided to call for Yasser Arafat's removal as a last-minute reaction to a brace of suicide bombings in Jerusalem late last week. But while that demand may have expressed the administration's frustration over what it sees as Arafat's creative ambiguity in relation to terrorism, it has also created the improbable scenario of the Palestinian leader upbraiding the president of the United States on the issue of democracy - and being supported by European and moderate Arab leaders. Britain, Washington's closest international ally, joined...
...grounding in the rules of business, he is a political animal. His advisers have been studying polls that indicate that Americans aren't fully focused on the war against terror or inclined to back an independent commission to study intelligence failures. And last week the Administration nervously monitored the reaction to Bush's plan from his conservative base, which is allergic to any hint of expanded government powers...