Word: humaneness
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...human Washington, President George, had a better grasp of the nature of his countrymen and chopped the house plans to one-fifth the original size. And the name was downgraded from "President's palace" to "the President's House." A few years after its completion, the no-nonsense Americans were calling it as they saw it--the White House. Still, George Washington, with a lingering bit of the kingly itch, made sure the house would be grand enough for the Chief Executive of the new Republic. Even the ascetic New Englander John Adams, the new nation's second President...
What the Electoral College needs is a neutron bomb--a weapon that leaves the structure standing but wipes out the people. While there are plausible arguments for preserving this 200-year-old system, the first step is to cleanse it of its most dangerous moving part: human beings...
...million from his $400 million personal cache on Election Day alone--about $20 a vote--to defeat four-term Congressman Bob Franks for the New Jersey seat of retiring Democrat Frank Lautenberg. Though the biggest issue in the race was the amount of campaign spending (Republicans dubbed Corzine the "human ATM machine"), Corzine ran on one of the most liberal platforms in the nation, advocating such edgy programs as public preschool and universal health care. On the trail, Corzine spun the funding issue in his favor, noting he would not be beholden to campaign contributors. But for all the money...
After a week in which folks were buffeted by inaccurate bulletins and torrents of shouted opinions, we worked hard to fulfill what we see as our role here at TIME: getting behind the scenes to tell the real story, capturing the human emotions and historic resonances, turning random facts into reliable narratives, and putting even the wildest of weeks into smart perspective...
...photographs, the acclaimed Dutch naturalist turns the flora and fauna of Borneo, Madagascar and the Amazon basin into objets d'art. Not a human is in sight, though Lanting's artistry and perseverance are hard to miss in these kingdoms where he was the intruder and adversary. As he notes, "I have seen leaf-cutter ants eat my tent, fungi grow in my lenses, and larvae emerge from the flesh of my leg." This reasonably priced volume is ideal for the bright child who needs to know there's a world beyond PlayStation2--a world of drama, danger and grandeur...