Word: compassion
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...most extraordinary student that I have ever taught,” Tribe said. “He had a level of maturity and vision and a degree of authenticity and a moral compass that was so powerful that it was just magnetic...
...That is the only path to understanding the Bolivian Navy’s challenge to all existing rationality: No matter how complex our equations get, history will remain our best compass with which to navigate the uncertainties of human decision-making...
...Golden Compass, the first of the Pullman trilogy, reached the screen last December. It cost the same as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ($180 million) but grossed only $70 million at the domestic box office. The very respectable $301 million the movie earned in foreign markets wasn't enough to mask the disappointment of its producing studio, New Line. No sequels were green-lighted, and in February New Line was folded into its parent company, Warner Bros...
...other similarity in the two films: to this adult's eyes, they were of only middling quality. The Golden Compass was middling-good, with a beguiling central performance by 13-year-old Dakota Blue Richards, a slinky turn by Nicole Kidman as an evil-stepmom type and a nifty polar-bear fight. But the film never cohered, and at the end it trailed off into a preview of the two sequels that now don't look as if they'll be made. The first Narnia movie was middling-bad, its four lead child actors displaying little charm, their world holding...
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