Word: compassionate
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However, having no doubt discovered through focus groups and polling that stem-cell research might be a useful reverse-wedge issue against Republicans, who have traditionally enjoyed an electoral advantage on "values," the Democrats showcased it with a prime-time convention speech by the well-known medical expert Ron Reagan...
The latter role required a lot of staring into computers and barking down the phone. "Call me back in 20 [minutes], and when I ask you where we stand, I had better be impressed," she tells one of her flunkies. But she brings a touch of heart to her hypercompetence...
I was the chair of the search committee that called the Rev. Joanna Adams to her first position as a Presbyterian senior pastor almost 20 years ago. Although she was the first woman in our pulpit, we did not call her because of her gender. She was simply one of...
Equal to my mother's exquisite needle artistry was her compassion for others. Every Sunday she and my father would load our car with extra clothing and homemade meals for the children at the local orphanage. One week I protested when my mother wanted to give away my favorite cap...
The author says that one of his models for Transmission was the fiction of English satirist Evelyn Waugh. When he exposes the inner workings of a Korean online role-playing club, hilariously parodies a Bollywood plot or offers a careful study of how tomatoes are stacked in a California supermarket...