Word: compassionate
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Good character seems to be an important element to seek in a tenured professor. Professor Brinkley's wonderful scholarship, his keen mind and sense of humor will be missed by many of us students who took his courses, but the decency, compassion, and good character he brought to the History...
After Representative Robert Bauman, a Maryland Republican, was arrested in 1980 on charges of soliciting sex from a teenage male prostitute, his world fell apart. He lost his seat in Congress. His marriage broke up. His faith, Roman Catholicism, demanded a repentance that he did not feel. And his conservative...
Giacalone says she "does not seek convictions for the sake of convictions, as if scoring points in some game. It's a balancing act between the claims of justice and civilized society's proclivity for compassion. You don't lock someone up because you can." But the woman who once...
Sometimes The Progress of Love seems an ironic title. Munro describes the kinds of erosion that can occur when two people have rubbed against each other too long: "They were intimate. They had found out so much about each other that everything had got cancelled out by something else. That...
Some Administration officials were privately bitter that the U.S. seemed to have caved in to Kremlin bullying. But they were overruled by none other than Ronald Reagan, whose compassion in this instance overpowered his visceral anti-Sovietism. Reagan personally approved the arrangement Thursday afternoon (it took nearly 24 hours to...