Word: compassion
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would I want with construction dirt?" she is fond of asking. "It's not my husband.") In part, she was sluggish with grief. But there was something else tethering her to home. Ginny has a terrible sense of direction--on top of everything else, George had been the family compass--and she was petrified of losing her way. Then one day Hilary's principal called to say he had heard about a special daylong grief camp for 9/11 victims: Comfort Zone Camp, based in Richmond, Va. Originally created for children who have lost loved ones, Comfort Zone rallied...
Producing an accurate map was imperative. The compass was crucial to navigation and surveying...
...Tuesday and Thursday" drops us in on Paul Chloe, a thirtyish civil-servant during his mid-week days off. He's a jerk. Arrogant and acerbic, he snaps at his wife and puts down his friends. But he seems more desperate than angry. His moral compass has gone haywire. He shoplifts a can of tuna because "food always tastes better when it's free," but helps an old man who has fallen to the curb. On Tuesday night, after boozing it up with his "pals" he snatches a wad of cash from the hands of an unsavvy pedestrian. Where...
...speech doesn’t have anything to do with HLF. Like most graduation speeches, it has to do with you. Yasin is saying that each individual should take up the cause of jihad—internal struggle—to find a moral compass in our-post Sept. 11 and post-graduation lives. It’s hard to argue with that...
...Harvard is not nearly the best place to hone one’s moral compass,” he says—pointing to attitudes of competitiveness, an aggressive drive to succeed, and selfishness that are “somewhat common” and “can cloud moral issues...