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In a way, the most disturbing cases were the ones in which money played no role, in which the impersonator craved nothing so much as our compassion. Sugeil Mejia, a young mother of two, told police two days after the attacks that her husband was a Port Authority police officer...
Chip Conley, the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, which operates 40 boutique hotels and other properties, exemplifies San Francisco smarts in Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Conley's company was almost wiped out by the post-9/11 downturn. But the theories of...
Furthermore, the T-shirt movement presumes that stigma will continue to exist unless we, the uninfected, can experience what it is like to be a person who is publicly HIV-positive—and that by wearing a cotton T-shirt, we can begin to understand. This is based on...
The Iranian President can only benefit from this sort of demonization. It allows him to tell his fellow Iranians: "Look, I tried to be a nice guy, I wanted to lay a wreath on Ground Zero, but these Americans don't appreciate our compassion." And to the conservative mullahs and...
No decision, of course, is ever the result of one pure motive. Johnson, his biographer Robert Caro argues, always had reservoirs of genuine compassion that his ambition finally allowed him to tap. John Quincy Adams became a principled scourge only after his ambition to be elected President had been gratified...