Word: compassable
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...slinging pot in your suburban neighborhood to support your kids on your dead husband's meager insurance payout--that's when you can call yourself a desperate housewife. Mary-Louise Parker gave a performance so human and conflicted, you could practically see the needle of her moral compass spinning. Creator Jenji Kohan's writing put the new in nuance, as she drew not only Parker but her various upscale associates (including a surprisingly appealing Kevin Nealon as a stoner accountant) in a way that neither judged nor let them off the hook. The best comic suburban soap on TV, ounce...
...donors to the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS), apparently outed yesterday when Harvard’s seasonal thank-you notes to them were inadvertently sent to a list of Boston-area DEAS alumni. The notes suggest that Microsoft CEO Steven A. Ballmer ’77 and Compass Advisors Partner Stephen M. Waters ’68 had donated to the DEAS’s Challenge Fund, a fundraising initiative launched in 2002 to subsidize the development and expansion of the division. The notes also provide a rare window into the inner workings of efforts by the Harvard...
RESIGNED. EDDIE COMPASS, 47, New Orleans police chief, after unrelenting criticism of his role in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and 26 years at the police department in his hometown. Though he gave no specific reason for the move, his press conference came on the same day police announced that 250 cops would be investigated for unapproved absences following the storm...
RESIGNED. EDDIE COMPASS, 47, New Orleans police chief, after unrelenting criticism of his role in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and 26 years at the police department in his hometown. Though he gave no specific reason for the move, his press conference came on the same day police announced that 250 cops would be investigated for unapproved absences following the storm...
...future generations. He neither demonized the fathers and sons who did battle on the other side nor sought to diminish the terrible costs of his war. In the midst of slavery's dark storm and the complexities of governing a house divided, he somehow kept his moral compass pointed firm and true...