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On the surface, the speech sounded accommodating, even statesmanlike. Instead of a partisan pitch to "stay the course," it stressed the need for a "bipartisan spirit" of unity. It offered compassion rather than rigid ideology to those suffering from the recession, and it had soothing words for women, blacks, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mending and Bending | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

I do not understand this preoccupation with the "humane way" to execute killers. What compassion do they show the victims whom they dispatch with gun, knife, ax, club or poison?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 10, 1983 | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

It is also easy to write him off because there is such a gulf that separates him from us. He is busy and often overcommitted, and we are preoccupied and confused. There are 500 of us and only one of him. Thus the gap grows and eventually we can no...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Coles | 12/10/1982 | See Source »

Critics of traditional medical education commend that students are often overloaded with information and graduate as doctors who may not exercise enough compassion in dealing with patients.

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, | Title: Seven-Year Med Proposal Moves Ahead | 12/1/1982 | See Source »

The dedication of the monument conveys two messages. The first is something those of us who were not there cannot come close to understanding an indication that Vietnam vets can face up to and even take pride in what happened to them The second message is more simple it is...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: A Monument to Pain | 11/30/1982 | See Source »

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