Word: compassionate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
For weeks, pundits have advised Dukakis to push forth a few bold, new proposals in order to "define himself." No other issue better defines the stark choice we have before us in November--the choice between compassion and callousness.
Fourth, but hardly finally, we will have to make hard choices in our public care systems. We may have to conduct a national version of triage--limit how much we will spend to save one life and restrict the number of those on public assistance. If we start thinking about...
Whose life is this, anyway? Alison Poole, not yet 21, is studying acting at the Strasberg Institute and excess at the end of a coke spoon. She is the protagonist of this fleet, frequently nasty and fitfully funny chronicle of drug delirium, sexual excess and committed shallowness during the dimming...
In terms of style, last month's carefully choreographed Democratic Convention borrowed a leaf from the Republicans. But the even more strictly scripted Republican gathering borrowed the very themes of the Democrats. Speaker after speaker invoked the "F" word from Mario Cuomo's 1984 Democratic keynote speech: family. Change, the...
But life in the fast lane is still costing West Germans dearly. The number of road accidents is appallingly high and is expected to top 2 million for the first time this year. Says Otto Schily, a member of the environmentalist Green Party: "It's not only our compassion and...