Word: decentering
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Marius joins the company of notable Jewish intellects, best represented by Hannah Arendt, who enrage the entrenched leaders of Jewish political orthodoxy by pointing out their most dangerous failures to conduct themselves as decent citizens of the world. All Jews are well served by these honest moral criticisms of our leaders, and Peretz would do well as a member of the Harvard faculty, and as a Jew, to broaden his moral vision and admit that when a Jew tortures, when a Jew abducts a citizen from his or her home, when a Jew serves his state through terror, that...
...button of his shirt and the knot on his tie by himself. He exercises regularly on the treadmill his wife Elizabeth bought him a few years ago and then spent months coaxing him to use. (Horrified at the recent photo ops, she vowed to buy him some decent jogging shorts for his birthday.) Now he's as religious about his workout as his wife, spending 30 minutes on the machine three or four times a week. Because pulling backward is one motion his disabled right arm can make, Dole bought a rowing machine last year to improve his upper-body...
...their cheap flags fly in faded tatters, many Palestinians would echo the words of one of Arafat's aides: "We have an emotional catastrophe here. So many of us went to jail, lost friends to the battle with Israel. We ask ourselves, If we are not truly building a decent state, why did we go to jail for this damn cause...
...Gordon Liddy on the radio conservatives begrudge one measly cable, little-watched liberal talk show? Plus, the criticisms of Miller for "crossing the lines of fairness and decency" with his attacks on Gingrich & Co. show their extremely thin conservative skin. What's the fun of fair and decent political reflection? Calling people "feminazis" would be absolutely forbidden...
When it was first televised in the 1950s, 75 percent of American TV households tuned in to the pageant. Ten years ago, that share had dropped to about 25 percent; last year, it was down to 14.3 percent--still a decent showing in the cable era, but far from a smash...