Word: compassionate
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Critics have carped about the play's sometimes pretentious language ("Nobody dast blame this man..."). But at its best Miller's dialogue was unmatched for its plainspoken eloquence and economy. Willy, the blusterer with big dreams for his sons, meets Bernard, the nerdy next-door neighbor, now grown up and...
--TABLOID FRONT: Amy Fisher's father reached out to Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the woman Amy shot in 1992 and the wife of Amy's onetime amour, Joey Buttafuoco. In an interview in the New York Post, Mr. Fisher pleaded for "compassion" from Mary Jo. Dominic Barbara, a lawyer for Joey...
The rise of such laws suggests that middle-class Americans have exhausted their reserves of compassion for the homeless and now see them as responsible for their own fate. "People decided that homeless people were affecting their quality of life," says Ralph Nunez, president of the New York-based Homes...
But this was no ordinary dinner, no ordinary time. The date was Jan. 24, 1998, three days after an atom bomb named Monica was dropped on the capital. The hosts were Al and Tipper Gore; House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt and his wife Jane were their guests. Washington was radioactive...
PARIS: France's legislature would never be caught dead discussing anything as trivial as an extramarital affair. Not when it could be debating the politics of that intrepid cartoon adventurer, Tintin. On Wednesday, the National Assembly marked the 70th anniversary of the character's birth by debating his political allegiances...