Word: wronging
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...provision)) would express a decision by society, speaking through the legislature, to leave it to individual justices . . . to make fundamental moral decisions about the interests of other people without any standards to guide the individual judge . . . There are some judges who believe that abortion . . . is morally wrong, who could not in good conscience issue an order requiring an abortion to be performed. There are others who believe that what may be thought to be in the "best interests" of the pregnant minor is itself just as necessarily a moral as a social question, upon which a judge may not morally...
...time that future generations trying to reproduce life in a Long Island suburb in 1959 could use this as a blueprint. Hoffman introduces us to Nora Silk as she is moving into a little box of a home, so much like the others "that children wandered into the wrong house for cookies and milk." Her feckless husband, a magician who cannot even get hired for children's birthday parties, has left her and fled to Las Vegas, where he hopes to perfect his lounge act. Towing Billy, her eight-year-old who sometimes wore a look so awful "complete strangers...
...that it was "the Democratic congressional leadership that was in bed with the S&L operators." More important, Black contends, the President will earn new respect for his efforts to negotiate a deficit-reduction compromise with Congress. Yet by a stark majority (60% to 34%), Americans think Bush was wrong to abandon his "no new taxes" pledge...
...necessarily a bad thing," argues Miroslav Hroch, a historian at Prague's Charles University. He believes after four decades of communism it is inevitable that people will seek a national identity. "An old order has collapsed, and people have to belong to something," he says. "There is nothing wrong with their rallying to the flag." True, as long as the old demons do not wrap themselves in the flag as well...
...Wrong again. The star of this movie is a guy who dresses up in a crazy disguise as part of a bank robbery, and spends the rest of the film trying to evade the long...