Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This, if you're wondering, is a compliment. Since his time at TIME, Andersen has been a founding editor of Spy, the editor in chief of New York, a producer of network specials, a staff writer for the New Yorker. He knows the three points of the buzz compass--Manhattan, Hollywood and the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash.--as well as anyone. Or at least as well as anyone who has so keen an appreciation for the pomposities, vapidities and idiocies that constitute the murmur of our times. As his chief characters--a former journalist edging into sleazy television infotainment...
...echoes off the polished corridor floors. Classrooms are empty because many of the kids are off in the woods. The kindergarten class is at the town's little nature center down the road. Groups of students go out with Americorps volunteers three days a week to track animals, learn compass- and map-reading skills and study water usage and pollution. High schoolers pursue research projects: a study of how highway salt affects vegetation or a local lumber company's harvesting practices...
...COOLEST FEATURE] Marvel at the "moral compass...
...variety--Falling, about Taylor's own divorce, manages to embrace, if not resolve, some of the questions gripping many Western societies: Is staying married always good? Is divorce always bad? What's best for the children? How, in the face of personal unhappiness, does one set one's moral compass...
...same can be said of the impassioned, impugned House managers, who, whatever the merits of their case, put a lie to the assumption that all politicians are driven solely by polls and survival instincts. One could wonder where their compass pointed, but no one mistook it for a weather vane. Henry Hyde argued that "there's no political profit in this. A President Gore would not be helpful to the Republican Party." But when Hyde faced the Senators, he challenged them to larger purposes: "I have always believed that there are issues of transcendent importance that you have...