Word: humanize
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After a while at this show, you may think that to be deprived of a life in Utopia may be a loss, a sad failure of human potential. Until, that is, you consider how unspeakably awful the alternative would...
...ENVIRONMENT A new U.N.-sponsored study came out last week stating that global warming is worse than anyone had thought and that human pollution is a substantial cause. Gore pledges a remarkable $171 billion in tax credits and subsidies over 10 years to wean us off our reliance on oil and gas and get rid of polluting factories. Bush--who knows or cares nothing about this subject--finds it convenient to deny that people have anything to do with pollution and wants to solve our oil problems by drilling on pristine lands. In a major speech this week, with swing...
...Reagan and asked if we'd be better off four years from now. Off the top of a sleepless head, he spoke of even more jobs and health care for every child. And then he said this: "America has a two-part mission. First, to prove that freedom unlocks human potential. Second, to prove that we have the capacity to rise above racial and religious differences and hatreds. The suffering people of the world, when they hope, look to us for a sign of their own potential. I see a future, now near to us, in which we become more...
...contrast, Bush's proposals for early childhood are aimed at the kids who, studies show, benefit most from preschool: the poor. Citing mixed reviews of Head Start, he would shift the program's address from the Health and Human Services Department to the Education Department and emphasize educational pursuits like word recognition and counting over social services. The cost of this change? Zero. Bush saves his dollars for his $5 billion reading initiative, which does not kick in until kids reach kindergarten...
...instead of a joyous reunion, Sonny encounters a multigenerational feud, which Marshall unfolds by moving deftly between present and past. If her narrative occasionally swerves into Young Adult territory, it's not at the sacrifice of complex characters or of her longstanding themes: the fundamental human desire to belong--to a place or a people--and the fratricidal discord between American-born and West Indian blacks...