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...ventured all the way to Waco -about 25 minutes from Crawford - to "help build" a house with Habitat for Humanity. Though Bush actually spent about 15 minutes doing anything, the print media dutifully reported his activity. More importantly, of course, the images of Bush at work on a good deed were carried across the nation on television and in photographs...
...always end up dying," the child says. No, it's not Melrose Place or E.R. or any of the other imported dramatic series that fill the country's airwaves. It's a show about South Africans themselves. 'Soul City', the local soap opera that began as a good deed, is now an award-winning, multi-media business internationally recognized for its role in Third World development. It is also one of the top three most widely watched progams on South African...
What, then, is Joe Mesa's alleged deed? An aberration? Or something new in the community? In the past few decades, just as the deaf have established a national profile, some of their cultural distinctives have been eroding. Deaf children, once segregated in residential schools, are often mainstreamed today. Cochlear-implant operations, once opposed by some deaf people as insulting and possibly harmful, have gained in acceptance. Pagers and e-mail are supplanting bulkier TTY, the small teletype that enables deaf people to use phone lines. Because most televisions now come equipped for closed-captioning, deaf Americans, historically less well...
...purification ritual that dirties those who come in contact with it. And just as the majority of Americans still agree that it is right to kill killers but don't agree on why (revenge? deterrence? respect?), we are also not certain why it is wrong simply to watch the deed carried out. Would it horrify us or make us jaded? (Or - dare we say it - sympathetic?) Would it feed our bloodlust or weaken our will to kill? Would it be cruel and unusual punishment - or a reward...
...Allianz also seems unlikely to stop its expansion push with the takeover of Dresdner. "We will remain capable of action and thirsty for deeds," Schulte-Noelle told a press conference. There was immediate speculation that the next deed would be acquisition of an online bank...