Word: righting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...There is hardly a human way to build anything in Cambridge right now," he said at a town-hall meeting with students that was the final event of the council's "Days of Dialogue" series...
...cheer, I spent the four days catching up on my pop culture, but when it was all over, I felt a lingering discomfort in my stomach (maybe it was the butternut squash?). I felt like the wool had been pulled over my eyes-as if something wasn't quite right. I thought and thought and thought... And then I figured...
...Merchant of Venice," Shylock says over and over, "I stand for law." But the verdict of the play is that true justice is more than a strict adherence to law, and that what is right is not always what is legal...
...more Floridians went to the polls with the intention of voting for Al Gore than for George Bush. The absurd butterfly ballots, the ridiculous punch card technology, the confusing instructions to African-American voters, all conspired against Gore and those who wanted to vote for him. Is that right? Hmm, no. Is that just? Probably not. Is it fair? Well, yes, I'd have to say it is. It's fair because those are the breaks. It's fair because no human system is perfect. And it's fair because, well, because life...
...while the courts and the legislature have seemed to hibernate. And sometimes Congress or the courts seem to take the lead in setting the currents of our society. At times of crisis in American history, the courts have often been the institution that helped steer the country to the right path. Brown v. Board of Education was a triumph of judicial activism and morality...