Word: compassioner
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Sickened by his father's social circle and economic exploitations, Filartiga began to work with his father's laborers "out of curiosity." He recalls with satisfaction earning his first check for a solid week's labor. He soon after announced to his father that he intended to work full-time...
Filartiga found his voice--a strident one--as well as his compassion in these years. His son's death taught him to use it. Joelito's one-and-a-half-hour torture session was recorded by the police, because they were so certain it would produce a confession. Filartiga has...
HARVARD DOES PREPARE ONE for the real world. But it does not prepare one to change that world--not educationally, politically, emotionally. Officials who think they can separate education from politics are at best deceiving themselves and at worst undermining the institution they claim to protect. A good education schools...
Perhaps. But even if Tatum is the only savage-minded safety in professional football-and that seems dubious-his case is complex enough to merit consideration. For while his "confessions" may be tasteless and disturbing, he tempers them with a sort of pathetic self-pity ("I am not an assassin...
Most bad movies take a few minutes to reveal their worst sins. Going in Style announces its mediocrity right away. As the heroes (George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg) are first seen sitting on a park bench in Queens and making introductory small talk, Going in Style lapses into immediate...