Word: callouses
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...alarm--and shame--is justified and long overdue, the manners gurus say. "We're reaping what we've been sowing for the past 20 to 30 years," says Corinne Gregory, founder of the PoliteChild. "Society has gotten increasingly callous and me-centered, and we're fed up with [the results]." Her firm, based in Woodinville, Wash., began in 2001 as an after-school program and is now a national enterprise with 2,000 alumni. Gregory's pupils are taught to mind their p's and q's and remember their three c's: caring, compassion and consideration...
...gravity of the issue. Only recently, under the pressure of heightened public scrutiny, did President Bush exchange his previously lukewarm expressions of regret for a more sincere apology. Yet the damage has been done; no words can redeem the atrocity or compensate for the attitude of negligence his callous words revealed. Looking out for the American troops isn’t enough; it only takes one photograph of the receiving end of the blows to remind us that in warfare there are always two sides to everything...
...land. If a person decides to buy Fair Trade coffee instead of generic coffee, they get coffee that tastes the same, but the purchase comes with the “attribute” that the coffee beans were farmed in a conscientious way. One could hardly be so callous as to describe this choice as “throwing money at poor coffee farmers” or to characterize Fair Trade certification as a “subsidy”. Similarly, when we purchase TRCs, we get the same electricity, but now it comes with the attribute of having been...
...Palme d’Or) and exhibition in Europe, domestic critics have attacked the film on three counts. They decry its depiction of an imaginary Depression-era small town for its brutality, its director for presuming to understand our country without ever having set foot in it, and its callous end-credits, which set Walker Evans’ famous photographs of impoverished southerners to the strains of David Bowie’s “Young Americans”. One called the film’s message “Taliban thinking” to von Trier?...
...this attack, and those who had were not especially affected or concerned. It was not even the headline the following day in the Boston Globe. Could Americans really be so self-interested to not care? Could we possibly have become so accustomed to such tragedies to have grown callous to them? Perhaps there was a time when it was somewhat excusable that Americans did not empathize with those affected by disasters of this nature—we hadn’t experienced such tragedy. But Sept. 11, 2001 should have changed all that. We know exactly what the Spanish...