Word: compassionate
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But wonks are wonks, whatever their party affiliation. On Saturday morning, the Dark Ages carousers filed into Arianna Huffington's seminar on "Life After the Welfare State: What Replaces It?" When one participant declared, "Cutting government is the ultimate act of compassion," others sensitively asserted the need for "faith-based...
DAVIE, FLORIDA: After a 33 year career as an NFL head coach in which he won 347 games, more than anyone else in league history, Don Shula will step down as head coach of the Miami Dolphins. In 26 seasons as the Dolphins head man, Shula won two Super Bowls...
It won't do to be too prissy about absolute fairness, to expect that Newt and his cohort would not reward followers and punish foes. On the other hand, by not demanding some sacrifice from his own supporters, Gingrich and his movement risk being seen as just another engine of...
Gingrich: There is this false issue, which it's taken me at least all year to fully understand: in modern America, compassion equals bureaucracy. If you're not for bureaucracy, you're not for compassion. I thought we were off to a good start with it last spring, but I...
Ives' goodness is tested, as it inevitably must be, by tragedy. His son is randomly gunned down at Christmastime in 1967, and Ives spends years withdrawn and numb. Unlike Macon Leary, whose child suffers the same fate in Anne Tyler's Accidental Tourist, Ives eventually finds quiet hope not in...