Coming on the heels of John McCain's rant against so-called "activist judges," the decision provides a refreshing example of a Republican-dominated state court transcending ideology and political pressures to render a scrupulously fair ruling based on law, precedents and common sense.
In fact, he based his portrayal on a scrupulously studied tape recording of the footballer's voice.
The impression of Odessa that emerges from Peter Berg's new film, and from the scrupulously reported 1990 book by H. G. Bissinger on which it is based, is of a self-contained world in which high school football, played in a stadium bigger than ones at many colleges, is more important than church, state, sex, money or anything else.
Scrupulously following the path laid down by Mr. Grimbert, a French psychoanalyst who based his book (published in the United States as "Memory") on his family's history, Mr. Miller sets out to solve mysteries and clarify ambiguities.
Alvvays are based in Toronto and are, like most things that come out of Canada, scrupulously polite.
The film, directed by Udi Edel and based on the book of the same name by Stefan Aust, takes us scrupulously through the heydays of the group, each deed more brazen and brutal than the last: the bombing of a newspaper office, the daylight murders of prominent German citizens, the siege of an embassy in Stockholm, the hijacking of a Lufthansa jet, and so forth.
Mr Day-Lewis is one of our finest method actors who scrupulously creates distinct and original characters for each film and any suggestion that he has based his recent career on an ability to grow elaborate facial hair and bellow in an incongrous Boston accent is clearly wide of the mark".
If the proceedings are scrupulously transparent and adhere to the best traditions of the country's judicial system, which is based on French and Shariah law, it will send an important message to all would-be leaders that they too will be held to account.
Walter Bobbie's direction and Ann Reinking's choreography, based in turn on Bob Fosse's work on the original 1975 Broadway production, have been scrupulously recreated by David Hyslop and Gary Chryst, respectively, and the sets, lights, and costumes remain intact.
I once worked for the Labour party in the days when it was based at Transport House and there was a clear understanding in those days that party headquarters remained scrupulously impartial on internal party affairs.
