Word: decentering
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...Americans need to learn? Following this logic, one would have to conclude that terrorists and those who incite them are spiritually nourished and intelligent and that their "self-confident relentlessness" is something to aspire to. People with less emotional and more thoughtful approaches to crises are not "unfit for decent company," as Morrow puts it; rather, they are the real patriots who truly love their country and the human possibilities it stands for. KATHERINE MEEKS New York City...
...when the rules don't apply, when inconceivably cold-blooded evil is in command, the victims are truly helpless. In the face of unfathomable evil, decent people are psychologically disarmed. What is so striking--and so alien to civilized sensibilities--about the terrorists of radical Islam is their cult of death. Their rhetoric is soaked in the glory of immolation: immolation of the infidel and self-immolation of the avenger. Not since the Nazi rallies of the 1930s has the world witnessed such celebration of blood and soil, of killing and dying. What Western TV would feature, as does Palestinian...
...those who hate us. He had a way of making difficult requests. But he knew something we ought all to have learned now: that the cost of hatred is hell on earth. And he had an idea for how effectively to respond to hatred, long-term, about the only decent such idea anyones ever had: to show respect for the humanity of others, evenno, especiallyin the face of disrespect for our own. My hope, my prayer, is that our new, or renewed, appreciation of the costs of hatred might commit us to fight it, in all its ugly forms, wherever...
...long ago, it was hard to write a column. Guys like Mike Royko used to have to get up from their desks, get into a car and ask people questions in neighborhoods that were sometimes dicey. Neighborhoods, I'm told, that had no decent restaurants for expense lunches. Back then, when the concept of news was limited to what happens to other people, editors wouldn't even consider something as monumental as a columnist's own mother's wedding to be newsworthy...
message across to the increasing number of guests who think that the best way to get decent service is to operate at bullhorn level and ratchet up the volume from there. "Unfortunately, as a culture we've decided the only way to get what we want is to demand it," says Terpilowski, a veteran hotelier who has run top-rated inns in a number of major cities...