Word: cherishing
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...letter, McArthur cited the need for students to "accept and cherish" the "wide range of views about what is going on or should be going on" in the Middle East...
Yesterday, as we all know, the first allied bombs fell on Iraq and occupied Kuwait. This is a matter of deep regret for all people who cherish human life. One person is responsible for the destruction that will be unleashed in the coming weeks: Saddam Hussein. His barbarous contempt for basic human rights and the norms of international conduct have brought--and will continue to bring--sorrow to countless families in Kuwait and other allied nations...
...everything, from old songs on the car radio to the crammed titles on a cineplex marquee: HONEY I SHRUNK BATMAN GHOSTBUST II KARATE KID III DEAD POETS GREAT BALLS. These are the fragments he innocently shores against his ruin, the kind of details that historians millenniums hence will cherish. Even his loopiest private opinions carry the whiff of theological profundity. Months into the Bush Administration, Rabbit misses Reagan: "The powerful thing about him as President was that you never knew how much he knew, nothing or everything, he was like God that...
...whole world directs its attention, however briefly, to those to whom the earth will soon belong, what kind of leadership can the United States offer? Americans cherish the notion that they cherish their children, but there's woeful evidence to the contrary. Each year thousands of American babies are born premature and underweight, in a country torn by neither war nor famine. The U.S. is one of only four countries -- with Iran, Iraq and Bangladesh -- that still execute juvenile offenders. And nearly 1 in 4 American children under age six lives in poverty. Congressmen wrestling with budget cuts, policymakers musing...
Although I didn't make much of it at the time, I have since learned to cherish that experience...