Word: compassable
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...comes the most startling discovery yet. According to a recent report in Science, researchers have found discrete locations in the brain of an intricate system that serves, among other things, as the human moral compass. Largely in the prefrontal cortex, it is where reason is applied to complex social situations, where our personal scales of justice do their weighing. It may come as a shock that this highest, most spiritual faculty is just as identifiable and in some ways as physically vulnerable as, say, a knee joint. But vulnerable it is. One's moral fiber can literally snap...
...Congress, as in most other places, the real secret to enforcing the rules is not so much a matter of policing as self-policing. "I really always had the feeling that there was no one there ((on Rostenkowski's staff)) who really had a good moral compass," says a former House staff member. "Or maybe, to be fair, he never had anyone courageous enough working for him who'd come up to him and say, 'Boss, you can't do that anymore.' " Former Oklahoma Congressman Wes Watkins, who retired four years ago, says a friend once offered him a useful...
...political agenda" and "financial" motives. Stands to reason. Who could oppose an apostle of political virtue but those who, for the most selfish of reasons, wish to stop her good works? The President angrily declares that "the American people can worry about something else" than his wife's "moral compass." The Clintons do not just deny wrongdoing in Whitewater. They take offense at the very suggestion...
...turn out to be angels in disguise, and good old melodrama. Echoes of past masters -- Henry James and John O'Hara, for instance -- abound. What saves the stories from seeming contrived is their natural assurance of voice (the sentences read as if spoken aloud), their steadiness of moral compass and their acuity -- often humorous -- of detail...
...Great North-South-East-West Conference: Also known as the "Compass Eight," fine institutions like Eastern Ohio, Northwest Indiana and Southeastern Michigan State compete every year for the bragging rights to one of the nation's oldest trophies, the GNSEW's prestigious Little Brown Beer Bottle...