Word: courteousness
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...services as they stand, while not perfect, are much improved from last year. The shuttles generally arrive on time, and the Evening Shuttle Van Service phone operators are courteous. This year's revamped and redesigned shuttle schedule offers "express service" from Johnston Gate to Currier House in the 4 to 7 p.m. "rush hour," and the addition of a colossal new bus last year and another one in the next few months are helping to stem overcrowding. In addition, the shuttles now run on weekend mornings, a needed change...
Sister Doris Gormley is director of corporate social responsibility for the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. This spring, after receiving a proxy statement from a large Silicon Valley corporation called Cypress Semiconductor, she sent back a courteous, three-paragraph form letter explaining her order's belief that corporations should include qualified women and minorities on their boards. In return, she received a six-page lecture from Cypress CEO T.J. Rodgers, who said, among other things, that views such as hers were "immoral." So much for my assumption that every little American boy is raised to be particularly polite...
...student Jane Labous. "But basically he exonerated himself." Which is also what Richard Nixon did in 1978 when he made his first university appearance after his resignation at the Oxford Union. Like Simpson, Nixon said his conscience was clear. And like Simpson, the disgraced President hoped a kind and courteous reception in England would begin to turn the tide of public opinion at home. For Nixon, it worked. In Simpson's case, the jury may be out for a very long time...
Also, the city just announced a new initiative to make taxi riding more pleasant: drivers will be required to learn 50 courteous phrases that the authorities believe to be appropriate for dealing with passengers. What New Yorkers found entertaining in that piece of news was that these 50 phrases will be the only complete sentences of English some drivers know. We can now look forward to hearing a driver punctuate a stream of Haitian patois or Urdu or Russian with "It is my pleasure to place your bags in the trunk" or "May I help you into the building...
Damn Camden Yards, the gleaming, charming, "old-fashioned" Baltimore ball park that has turned so many cities green with envy. Damn the Jumbotrons and the food courts and the infuriatingly courteous ushers and the souvenir superstores with the Cooperstown Collection jackets. And damn us for letting ourselves be played for suckers by people who see us not as fans but as a "revenue stream...