Word: self-restraint
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...never ceases to amaze me how much medication or surgery a person will endure in order to avoid a modicum of self-restraint at the dinner table. Drugs like Redux do not treat the indolence and self-pity that are the true causes of our obesity and poor health. KEVIN RUMON Atherton, California Via E-mail
...deal with the problem the U.S. faces today, it must accept a lesson that runs against the isolationist grain: alliances are essential. A task as big as, say, aligning China or Russia toward free markets, responsive government and strategic self-restraint will take consistent diplomacy from many countries working together for at least a generation. Building and managing an alliance to last that long will call for leadership more patient and forward thinking than the U.S. has commonly provided. But other countries are eager for it--though they may not always admit as much. "The U.S. is and should remain...
...women. (It was subsequently published by Knopf, a division of Random House.) "It's our responsibility,'' says Martin Davis, then chairman of Simon & Schuster's corporate parent Paramount. "You have to stand for something.'' This is just the sort of thing that Dole says he has in mind: self-restraint on the part of producers and distributors. "I'm just saying sometimes you have to have corporate responsibility and remember the impact on children...
...whether the appeal of the Nation of Islam -- and of Farrakhan -- is separable from his invective of hate. Leaders throughout history have found it is often easier to succumb to demagoguery, to define a single scapegoat and offer a single solution to life's ills, especially when proposing self-restraint and sacrifice. Would young people choose the hard way of Islam without the zealotry of separatism and resentment? Could Farrakhan fill the seats of big-city convention centers if he stopped offering the allure of the outrageous, the unpredictable, the unspeakable spoken out loud? Perhaps the answer to both questions...
Toleration implies self-restraint in the presence of someone you find hard to tolerate--i.e. someone you think deserves harm, hurt, damnation, etc. To the shock of the politically correct, this means that most racists, anti-Semites, and homophobes--the civil, law-abiding ones--are perfectly tolerant people...