Word: decentering
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Something odd and transforming generally happens to the public when presented with a story like Levy's. Most people are decent natured when they learn of a terrible event, and their sympathetic attention flies to the person in distress or peril. But open the story to one of sweaty nights between the sheets or to the possibility of murder by a public figure, and the initial rush of sympathy is closed off as if by a valve. Enter, then, the cable-TV experts in somber fantasizing and rampant "scenarios," and a story that caused you to gulp now makes...
...aren't the proportions exactly the same? McNeilly, a compact, muscled white man who has decent relations with black leaders in town, says class, not race, is the answer. "Poor neighborhoods have drugs being sold, disorderly conduct, gangs, trash being thrown on the street, fights, loud music. So police will make more stops in those areas," he says. He notes that he "constantly" gets requests from black neighborhoods for more--not fewer--cops to patrol the streets...
...brainy graduate of the University of Chicago with common sense who hired good people and learned to fire those who weren't. She bet the farm on editor Ben Bradlee, who had Phil's manic brilliance without the depression. The Post went from a decent, dull paper to a crackling, moneymaking one. She was not a natural skeptic but a natural, principled truth teller, shaking the Establishment of which she was a pillar. Against the wishes of financial advisers worried about the Post's imminent IPO, she published the Pentagon papers. Alone among publishers, she followed the facts in Watergate...
JUDGMENT CALL In the age of NASCAR, it should have a decent ride...
...brainy graduate of the University of Chicago with common sense who hired good people and learned to fire those who weren't. She bet the farm on editor Ben Bradlee, who had Phil's manic brilliance without the depression. The Post went from a decent, dull paper to a crackling, moneymaking one. She was not a natural skeptic but a natural, principled truth teller, shaking the Establishment of which she was a pillar. Against the wishes of financial advisers worried about the Post's imminent IPO, she published the Pentagon papers. Alone among publishers, she followed the facts in Watergate...