Word: candor
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...ability to persuade. And even as the speech approached, it was hard to know whether to root for or against the man from Hope, to wish that he might seize what the office affords him in grace and redemption: to apologize and, with just the right mix of candor and contrition, to make himself new again. Or wish that he wouldn...
...should note here that just before the speech, a guest on Larry King Live said the President should "do a 100% grovel." The American President cannot, should not, must not grovel. But a strong man can tell hard truths; can be tough on himself; can, through painful candor, inspire a nation to be its best, most generous self. But he must be his best, most generous self first...
...distraction over the nation for more than half a year. His message as a result of this was less that "sex doesn't matter" than "truth doesn't matter." Perjury may not matter, or be provable, but the larger betrayal was of a generation that prized itself on candor, on an openness about sex and authenticity...
Indeed, Fieger might be Michigan's fastest-rising Democrat, but he sometimes sounds more like "shock jock" Howard Stern. From disarming candor ("Sure, I smoked marijuana. And I inhaled. I'm not a liar like Clinton") to mean-spirited jabs (his favorite: Engler is the "product of miscegenation between barnyard animals and humans"), Fieger has spent his career making waves and lambasting virtually anyone who disagrees with him. "He's too quick. He's too unscrupulous, and he's too feisty," sniffs University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar, an expert on assisted suicide who has endured more than...
...make for interesting reading. Brief, often disjointed attempts at self-description, the ads aim to present an entire person by mentioning several characteristics and interests. Now, imagine the typical personal ad. Expand it to 10, maybe 20 pages. Replace the desire to impress with a commitment to candor. Picture the ad being written by someone who aspires to be a professional writer. In such a transformation every characteristic, every interest that would be presented in the shorter ad, will be explained, analyzed, connected to other traits, to past experiences, to future aspirations. Put together twenty of these revamped personals...