Word: compassionately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of the changes demanded by foreign investors are beyond Fraga's domain. "Brazil's economic health depends on the central government's convincing state governors to cut spending and increase taxes," says Baumohl. "That's a political battle over which the central bank has no control." Still, anything that...
Mother and daughter become rivals, and the balance of power between them shifts inexorably in favor of Amy as she, not Isabelle, discovers love. For Isabelle, it is painful recompense for what she considers a lifetime of sacrifice. Strout's insights into the complex psychology between the pair result in...
Not, thank heaven, a particularly magnificent one. Travolta and writer-director Steve Zaillian, compressing complex issues and characters with admirable craft, make it clear that greed and ego, more than compassion, drive Schlichtmann. Only when he reaches straits as dire as his clients' does he (non-melodramatically) achieve something like...
As a campus, we have stood by as the language of debate has changed, and Dartboard is not so dewy-eyed to be disappointed by mere wishy-washy non-committal phrases like "forging community" and "driving values." Such, it seems, is the fate of popular election rhetoric. No, Dartboard is...
The video gave ammunition to both sides in the debate. "This was a very ill man dying a gentle, peaceful death in the time and manner he requested," says Faye Girsh, executive director of the Hemlock Society USA, a group that promotes physician help in dying. "I think we should...