Word: deliverence
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Watch him at work in the 1946 It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra's Christmas confection with the bittersweet center. Stewart, as young George Bailey, is stepping up on one of his shaky soapboxes to tell off crippled town bully Lionel Barrymore. It is the first of many righteous...
Epluribus unum, one nation out of many individuals, the status we enjoy as an economic powerhouse, stems, so the American lore goes, from a firm commitment to personal gain blinds us from seeing a responsiblity to our fellow citizens and, through the state, to ourselves. As Harvard president emeritus Derek...
All the same, competition to deliver medical care in Bedford can get fairly heated. When the two hospitals aren't squabbling over roadside opportunities, they are engaged in a larger struggle for the sick and elderly in this town of 15,000. Their philosophies are at opposite extremes of today...
The truck rumbles into the pasture, a bovine maternity ward. Here a gawky newborn nuzzles its mother; there a fetal head and two hooves peek from the hindquarters of a cow that's ambling, wholly unconcerned, through the field. Sage grouse--a preposterously showy endangered species--strut and preen on...
The sweetest morsels in big tax bills, like the ones passed by the House and Senate last week, are often scarcely noticed. In the House bill, for example, "bakery drivers" was deleted from the list of occupations to be treated as employees. Instead, they're to be independent contractors, which...