Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...issue you can't control is people," Reardon says. "You can have the best fire alarm and prevention system...[but] what no one can dictate is human nature...
...always been so, rather than explain his moral struggle to get there? He conceded that he had voted to deny federal funds for abortions, but omitted that as a House member he was generally antiabortion, voting for a proposal that would have defined a fetus as a human life, which would have negated Roe v. Wade. As Vice President he can take pride in the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit. But why brag that he was the "principal proponent" of it in Congress when, at most, he co-authored one extension...
...perfect, so he came to think he could get away with anything. Gore keenly senses he's not perfect and rewrites history to try to make it so. He hated bringing home B's to his parents. Like few others, McCain accepts that to err is human. He had 5 1/2 long years to think about it. That alone gives him an advantage over Gore and Bush at this moment, when voters are aching to know the character, warts and all, of the men who want to be President...
...small Transylvanian town of Sighet and transported by train to Birkenau, the reception center for Auschwitz. During the days and months that followed, Wiesel lost his parents, his sister, his innocence and his peace. Witness, activist, writer and sage, Wiesel has since devoted his life to the fight for human rights and for remembrance...
Wiesel has worked on behalf of Holocaust survivors and on the behalf of victims of human rights abuses around the world. He has defended Israel and the Jewish people. He has denounced fanaticism and intolerance. He has not always succeeded in changing the views of others, but he has always tried. Wiesel's thoughts reflect the sadness of a life spent fighting an adversary that by all logic should never have existed and yet continues to roam the earth undefeated. His words are moving and inspiring, hopeful...