Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cuomo cautioned that we cannot expect heroes to arise on their own. But that doesn't mean that heroism lies beyond our grasp. It simply means that we should be willing NOT to be heroes, to acknowledge that our most exalted role might lie, instead, in softening the ground so that future heroes will have a place to grow. When they hear that Cuomo came to Harvard to speak about "the liberal agenda," too many people probably assumed that they had heard it all before, and that if it was all old news, who needed it? Those people, no matter...
...feeling at the time was, and still is, if you cannot pass an easy test of basic, general literacy skills, I do not want you receiving a diploma from my University. It would lower the credibility of an education from the University, and that's not fair to those of us who have no problem performing basic math skills and forming complete sentences...
...polite window dressing? No, says Carney: The Republicans came to the session with ?a level of honesty because they have only a slim majority in the new Congress.? GOP leaders know they are in no position to take bold steps and that they cannot afford to get into a major confrontation with the President or his party at this time. For the Democrats at the session, the major objective was to take measure of new House Speaker Dennis Hastert. By all accounts, says Carney, the impression he made was one of ?graciousness and non-confrontation.? Both sides seemed to come...
...find that I feel an unwholesome fury. I try to talk myself down from it by thinking good thoughts about Clinton--his complexity, his political gifts, his good heart, as I used to believe. It cannot be good for my own heart to harbor these toxins--frustration, a sense of outraged justice, contempt...
...each other for several minutes as if we do not exist. To me their behavior is simply a moment of normal human rudeness, though it is a little jarring in a building that is supposed to foster collegial bliss. I suggest to McDonough that civility is something that cannot be designed, and he starts to agree. Then he stops, grows pensive and says, as if making a note to himself, "Design for civility...