Word: react
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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When the pictures pour in from the Middle East of children cut down by bullets and soldiers lynched by enraged mobs, we ask ourselves "Why? Why are these people dying? How should I react to this...
...reading Coles's stories about morally brave and conscientious people, there is the temptation to react with cynicism. One might see the whole endeavor as ultimately futile-after all, it's very easy to talk about moral leadership and bemoan its absence (or if not its absence, its weakness) in contemporary American politics, but honestly, what can be done? Or perhaps all these examples of moral leadership just seem like a slightly more sophisticated version of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series...
...looked critically at the brave passengers who apparently contributed to Burton's death while trying to subdue him. Was his death the result of vigilante justice? No. It was the result of people doing what they had to to save themselves and others. Shouldn't passengers be expected to react strongly when their lives are at stake at 17,000 ft.? EDWARD L. EICHELBERGER Spring, Texas...
...says, "teens are eager to please." If you know the kids' parents are reasonable people, you might say something like "I'll leave it to you to tell them first, and I'll follow up tomorrow." But if you're not sure how parents will react, tread lightly. Lynn Lott, co-author of Positive Discipline for Teenagers, felt terrible after she caught her eighth-grader drinking with friends, but worse after she told their parents and then one of the kids got a beating. In iffy cases, it might be better to contact a child's teacher or guidance counselor...
Children may also react negatively if the room remains but has been stripped of their presence. Two years after Dena Cowan Klapperich, 37, a clinical psychologist in Lindenhurst, Ill., had left home to live with her boyfriend, her mother, U.C. Berkeley psychologist Carolyn Cowan, converted Dena's old room to an office. "The first time she came over after that, she couldn't walk in there," Cowan recalls...