Word: believingness
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By the end of the book, Brook has the reader believing that the hard way really is the best--and wishing that more newspapers tried to do it the hard way more often.
None of this makes her sound much like a bleeding heart, but it was enough to raise alarms at the White House, which plans to ask Congress for 100,000 new cops. Reno's priorities, they complain, are too liberal and social-service oriented -- particularly at a time when the...
Each month the Thai embassy in Tokyo repatriates about 250 escapees. But Japanese officialdom has been largely indifferent to the plight of prostitutes, and there are several recorded instances in which police, especially in rural areas, have handed escaping girls back to their abusers. Three recent murders -- Thai prostitutes who...
Public policy is not about being amiable; ornery people can be effective politicians. Feigning amiability is just too easy, and believing in the superficial features that a Tonight Show appearance highlights is far too seductive to be safe. Should we trust a politician who does not seem to be proposing...
Indeed, despite the freshness of his diagnosis of social problems, West's prescriptions for curing them can be vague and hopelessly Utopian. He advocates a "politics of conversion" in which blacks and other oppressed people would "affirm themselves as human beings, no longer viewing their bodies, minds and souls through...