Word: compassionate
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But these failures deserve compassion rather than scorn. The men who involved us in Viet Nam ventured American prestige beyond the strategic merits of the local issue and risked infinitely more than they intended. Yet their purposes were far from ignoble; later events confirmed the validity of the view that...
Abortion is not an issue that needs to be discussed in a political context at Harvard Radcliffe. Here at Harvard-Radcliffe, abortion is a story about a few months of fear, a few days of doubt, a few hours or minutes of pain, and years and years of shame and...
Hogan says that a coach should "demonstrate compassion towards the players but maintain a firm hand."
One instance of her compassion was her treatment of Romero, who went down with a twisted ankle in the middle of the season. Hogan still made sure that Romero was at all the practices and the games, "she said she wanted me to help her coach," Romero says, adding that...
As the shuttle proceeded, a strange phenomenon became evident. Syrian negotiators, their armies pushed back into the environs of their capital, exuded the sense that history was on their side; militarily predominant Israel acted as if one wrong step would spell its destruction. There was a reversal between victor and...