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Before the dean arrives, a police officer comes to my daughter's door. He asks if my daughter feels safe. She tells him, "No" soon after that, Dean Hewit arrives, asking if she had seen a police officer and what she said to him. The dean expressed dismay at what...
Even if he wins next week, Barry could still face an obstacle in William Lightfoot, a city-council member who has promised, if necessary, to challenge Barry as an independent in November's general election. But Barry is counting on compassion. "Every person in Washington has a bit of redemption...
Considering the "compassion fatigue" of the United States and other nations, armed intervention is unlikely and wisely unadvised. The failure of similar missions in Bosnia, Somalia, and Ethiopia have lead to and illustrate the limits of potency and the limites of US willpower. With luck and hard work, the conditions...
The central character starts as a prostitute. Through her own hard-won self- respect, the compassion of others and the reverberating links between past and future, she is abruptly transformed in the final moments into an educated wife and mother. This evolution is a metaphor for what Ayckbourn believes many...
Verghese arrived in small-town Appalachia two months later as an infectious- disease specialist, and soon found himself the de facto expert on the new plague. His main enemies were ignorance and prejudice, his own and other people's: he met transcriptionists who would run away so as not to...