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What really distinguishes these pieces is their sorrow -- particularly for the plight of American blacks and society's losers. Kempton measures leaders by their capacity for compassion, summing up the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. with this pronouncement: "A great man is one who knows that he was not...
Just the contemplation of punishment for Kelso was sufficient for his supporters to insist that he had suffered enough. One reason for the surprising lack of sympathy in the U.S. for the American student Michael Fay after he was sentenced to be caned in Singapore is the increasing recognition that...
Knowing Kelly, I believe without a doubt that she means it when she says that these people with their painful stories do "need our compassion and support." It's unfortunate that others are not so sympathetic.
I watched G. Brent McGuire '95, peninsula council member, take the mike early in the evening and begin to crack jokes. Before he made too much of a fool of himself the mike was cut off, but before every person watching could see one conservative's expression of his "compassion...
Kelly talks about a "real solution" which "would attempt to forge some compassion between the sexes." it's an admirable sentiment. But the male-female ratio at the event looked much more equitable than on any Peninsula masthead I've seen. And I don't even need to mention the...