Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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So for those of you for whom it matters, when you cast your vote in the election today and have weighed Messinger's apparent genuine compassion against Giuliani's penchant for unqualified results, if good versus evil does not influence your voting decisions at a level consistent with most systems...
Buddha taught the use of compassion to relieve suffering. Ritual, dogma and temples are irrelevant, red herrings on the path to insight. Karma and reincarnation are merely clever carrot-and-stick tools for people who need them. Most of us can do without them. TOM KOWALSKI Atlanta
The war between gays and lesbians and their allies on one side, and fundamentalist Christians on the other, has caused a lot of casualties. Activists with noble intentions have had our compassion and openness tested by this struggle. But the recent panel discussion sponsored by Harvard Law School's Society...
These men saw the world through the prism of evangelical Christianity. They could not conceive of a moral order outside the literal word of the Bible--I can't imagine one within it. On one level what they were saying frightened and disturbed me. But that did not obscure the...
Bill Russell's book, however, is short on ideas, guts or much tension. Near the end, director Tod Browning comes on to offer the sisters parts in his new movie. They light up but are jolted back to cruel reality when he tells them the film's name: Freaks. It...