Word: decentering
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Although her parents encouraged her to apply to Harvard, Keel was consumed by guilt: “My parents already had $75,000 of debt. I should go to a state school where I could get a decent education. My parents wanted me to go to a good school but I knew it would be too hard on them. Especially since I have a younger brother.” Keel also understood that Harvard’s financial burden would partially fall on her. During high school, Keel worked 14-hour weeks as a baby-sitter and at the library...
...There's a frenzied desperation among us for stories. When the first convoy reached Jalalabad, two smart-alecky Afghan kids came up to the group. They spoke decent English, and they went around to journalists pretending to be spokesmen for the local chapter of bin Laden's terrorist network, Al-Qaeda. Everyone told the kids to get lost - except for one U.S. news network. The interview went out as a world exclusive. Ethically, I suppose it beats selling slightly dented Cruise missiles to the Chinese...
...dishes were already spicy at mild. We also sampled the Chicken Saagwala, which was succulent pieces of chicken mingled with spinach, garlic, and various spices. The Baigan Bharta—a mashed concoction of baked eggplant, sautéed onions, and fresh coriander—was decent, though not quite as flavorful as the other dishes. We enjoyed our dishes with a generous portion of lovely long-grained rice, and a steaming order of Aloo Naan. The bread was absolutely heavenly, bursting with flavor and stuffed with potatoes and peas; we practically burned our fingers and tongues as we crammed...
...Soviet Union's most prominent dissidents, such as Andrei Sakharov, were scientists. They saw that the claims of communism couldn't be empirically validated; moreover, they had the courage to say that the evidence proved the opposite of communism's claim to build peace, happiness or even a decent...
...impression is one of a reserved and gentle man driven by a fierce moral code. "(Their) parents brought (Mohammed and his sisters) up on very correct principles, good old-fashioned principles," says Iman Ismail. "Someone like him, even if he tried to be bad, he couldn't. He was decent to the last degree...