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17 Jul 2009, 12:14 am
Alas, nothing suggests that she's either that wily or that stupid.She was nominated by a President who's apparently willing to endorse indefinite detention for the prisoners at Gitmo, who thinks the Supreme Court got it wrong when it said you can't execute people who didn't commit homicide, and who despite pledging to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, has not done so and filed a brief (available here) urging the Supreme Court to refuse to consider whether the rule… [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 6:27 am
As a wily criminal defense lawyer once said to me, "nothing is often the perfect thing to say and an excellent thing to do. [read post]
29 Jun 2009, 3:46 am
It's an even more unusual thing for the IPKat to do so without attribution, but this wonderful piece -- penned by the wily Anonymous -- has had him chuckling into his whiskers ever since he first read it. [read post]
28 Jun 2009, 5:43 am
As I noted in a previous post, the Virgin Mary is a powerful symbol, but somewhat less fun to be married to, and men who idealize their wives and children are arguably more susceptible to the wily, "darker side" women of whom there no shortage in political life. [read post]
20 Jun 2009, 1:55 pm
Rafsanjani presides over this body of clerics, but it is not clear whether the wily politician would be able or willing to muster a majority for a constitutional challenge to Khamenei. [read post]
15 May 2009, 4:53 am
But taking their cue from Obama, the wily solons in Salem are defining "rich" as having... [read post]
12 May 2009, 3:45 pm
And what WOULD wily Odysseus have done with Google Street View? [read post]
1 May 2009, 10:18 am
However, a witness may generally be impeached by contradiction only when the perjurious statement in question has been offered on direct examination; otherwise, a wily cross-examiner could open up broad areas for impeachment simply by posing clever questions on cross. [read post]
26 Apr 2009, 3:59 pm
Zimbabwe has over the last eight years or so seen the proliferation of wily dealers, ordinarily referred to as the informal sector. [read post]
22 Apr 2009, 5:49 am
" … that is, he works our organization and the personalities to his own advantage to get more business for his Firm. [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 8:39 am
Maybe that makes the US extra-super-cleverly realist, those wily new-liberal-realists outsmarting everyone - or maybe it just makes the US look weak.Liberal internationalism, to draw on Francis Fukuyama’s useful characterization of various traditional US foreign policy approaches (liberal internationalism, realism, Jacksonian nationalism, and neoconservatism) seeks to transcend the power politics of the international state of nature and govern it through international institutions and… [read post]
30 Mar 2009, 9:59 pm
Stoddard published in 1901, he said of him: He was a typical Irishman of the best stock--wily, witty, eloquent, emotional and magnetic. [read post]
13 Mar 2009, 2:05 pm
While free now, my bet is this could become a subscription service at some point . . . or perhaps Bob, in his endless financial wily-ness will build up an impressive base of content and subscribers and then sell out . . . imagine Google Scholars morphing into Google BestThinkers at some point? [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 5:12 pm
One of many members of the judiciary expressed opposition:"You're going to have panel-fixing like crazy," said Judith McConnell, an appellate justice in San Diego, predicting that wily and well-heeled litigants would rig their three-member panels by sprinkling $1,500 contributions among jurists they didn't like. [read post]
17 Jan 2009, 10:48 pm
Once Morris was out of jail, Russell developed a bad habit: using wily ruses to break out in order to be with him. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 8:43 am
"And speaking of transportation tragedies caused by lax regulation and wily companies, the U.S. [read post]
19 Dec 2008, 5:01 pm
There's little to suggest that he's got the blood instinct of a Lyndon Johnson, to say nothing of the lion-and-fox wiliness of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 9:42 pm
Procrastination is a wily foe of many forms. [read post]
14 Dec 2008, 4:41 am
Procrastination is a wily foe of many forms. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 9:38 pm
Though the other 111 or so subsidiaries identified in the Trib's petition are listed as co-debtors, none of these entities have yet filed their respective individual petitions, thus potentially enabling three wily creditors of each subsidiary to really throw a wrench in the works by filing an involuntary petition against that subsidiary in a venue other than Delaware (where the parent Tribune Company filed its petition). [read post]
