Word: compassionate
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If the words “curriculum vitae” set you shuddering with career anxiety, Yoel Hoffmann’s new work goes a long way to remind you of their original meaning—the “course of life.” While the content of...
Compassion, says the Oxford English Dictionary, means "suffering together." There has been plenty of that among politicians in London and Washington since Scotland's Justice Minister freed Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi on "compassionate grounds" Aug. 20, citing doctors' reports that he was dying of prostate cancer. Al-Megrahi, the sole person jailed for the deaths of 270 people in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, had served just eight years of a 27-year sentence. After all their grieving, the victims' loved ones had to watch al-Megrahi land in Tripoli, Libya...
Fusing the genres of introspective drama and explosive action calls for a delicate balance, but director Neill Blomkamp’s protagonist in “District 9”—who becomes a human-alien hybrid—reflects the success of such half-breeds. After being...
As the lights dim and you notice that you are surrounded by geriatrics, you may wonder why you skipped “(500) Days of Summer” for a documentary about an actress you’ve never heard of who bears a striking resemblance to your cousin Yetta...
"He exudes compassion and calm belying his age." - Marc Ellenbogen, chairman of the Global Panel Foundation. (UPI, Oct. 23, 2008)