Word: decentering
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...decent guys tried and failed. Tim Duncan, Karl Malone, and O’Neal, for example. A few bad apples also tried—Dennis Rodman, Charles Barkley, Iverson—but it didn’t stick...
...rest of the week will be a pretty good one to find out how extraordinary the post Sept. 11 economic world really is. There's a decent flurry of numbers and news due, starting Tuesday with the Fed and ending Friday with unemployment, payrolls, hourly earnings and average workweek for September - figure on the foremost of those hitting 5 percent at long last...
...Andrew Card, his chief of staff, says the President has "made sure that there is a balance to his effort--and that includes taking care of his mind and body and spirit." Bush is sticking to his exercise regimen, watching his diet and making sure that he gets a decent night's sleep, though now he typically gets to the office just before 7 a.m. rather than just after...
...Koran, therefore, the only permissible war is one of self-defense. Muslims may not begin hostilities (2: 190). Warfare is always evil, but sometimes you have to fight in order to avoid the kind of persecution that Mecca inflicted on the Muslims (2: 191; 2: 217) or to preserve decent values (4: 75; 22: 40). The Koran quotes the Torah, the Jewish scriptures, which permits people to retaliate eye for eye, tooth for tooth, but like the Gospels, the Koran suggests that it is meritorious to forgo revenge in a spirit of charity (5: 45). Hostilities must be brought...
...under pressure known to change his story, his message, his demeanor and his clothes, has resisted the weight of opinion in favor of getting it over rather than getting it correct. This has meant that Lieberman, considered a happy St. Bernard in 12 years in the Senate - "as moral, decent and honorable a man as I've known there," said Senator John McCain last Friday - has seen his image morph overnight into a Rottweiler. Conventional wisdom holds that a position can't be principle if it is also self-serving. As Lieberman waited to go on "Larry King Live" recently...