Word: decentering
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...policy of focused brutality does not come easily to a self-conscious, self-indulgent, contradictory, diverse, humane nation with a short attention span. America needs to relearn a lost discipline, self-confident relentlessness?and to relearn why human nature has equipped us all with a weapon (abhorred in decent peacetime societies) called hatred...
...medicine too strong? Call it, rather, a wholesome and intelligent enmity?the sort that impels even such a prosperous, messily tolerant organism as America to act. Anyone who does not loathe the people who did these things, and the people who cheer them on, is too philosophical for decent company...
...there are certain issues that demand our attention and we should at least sit at the table and talk about how we can ensure a fair and decent start in life for all our children...
...rope but so was the novel in general. When his first book, The Twenty-Seventh City, was published in 1988, he was just 29. The intricate tale of a vengeful woman hired from Bombay to become police chief of St. Louis, Mo., it got good reviews and decent sales for a first novel but never made a dent in the national conversation...
...reform is on the table is a sign that Washington has accepted a truth that Mexico has long held to be self-evident: That migration across the Rio Grande is essentially an economic problem. There'd be little reason for Mexicans to risk the harrowing passage if there were decent jobs to be had at home. Thus Fox's plan for immigration reform, coupled with economic reform to grow the Mexican economy. But President Bush also has plenty of reason to be cautious, since curbing immigration has long been a hot-button issue for his party's conservative base...