Word: compassionate
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Beevor is a skillful guide through the complex jockeying for position, sketching thumbnail portraits of the senior officers with novelistic abandon. (Of the senior British commander, the exasperating Sir Bernard Montgomery, he writes, "His self-regard was almost comical.") He is willing to be graphic, though never gratuitously so, in...
Here at home, we have watched as President Obama—and his maddeningly inept Democratic majority—squander control of the national debate over health-care reform. In place of intelligent deliberation, we have ignorant demagoguery. Instead of concern and compassion for the uninsured, we hear cries of...
Once again we see financial and political interests come before justice and decency. Al-Megrahi's release from prison after only eight years is shameful, and even more so since it was officially based on "compassionate grounds." Where is the compassion for the 270 people who died, and their loved ones? Stefania Lionetti, LUGO, ITALY...
...Once again we see financial and political interests come before justice and decency. Al-Megrahi's release from prison after only eight years is shameful, and even more so since it was officially based on "compassionate grounds." Where is the compassion for the 270 people who died, and their loved ones? My heart goes out to the victims' families. Stefania Lionetti, Lugo, Italy...
'Your lack of compassion and common sense in choosing to put this image ... on the front page of multiple American newspapers is appalling.' ROBERT GATES, Defense Secretary, in a letter to the AP