Word: demandingness
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I believe that the health of a society depends in large part on citizen’s intelligent skepticism—unwillingness to merely accept what is put before it as “gospel” (e.g., there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq because there must be...
Granted, Wolf’s militant excoriations have significant cultural resonance, even to women who aren’t convinced that their stilettos mean they’ve done something wrong. Despite our society’s emphatic assertion that an objective standard of beauty exists, the concept is actually...
David Hackbart was mad, and he wanted to show it, but he didn't think he would end up in federal court protecting his right to a rude gesture and demanding that the city of Pittsburgh stop violating the First Amendment rights of its residents.
Hunger strikers in Camp Ashraf - along with those starving themselves in sympathy in Washington D.C., London, Berlin, and Ottawa - are demanding that the U.S. take back protective control of the camp. In the long term, they'd like permanent U.N. protection for the dissidents. Several lawmakers and lawyer groups in...
Among the capricious fashion cognoscenti, tastemakers can command respect and recognition for half a season or half a century. The once fabulous, now floundering House of Halston struggles to recapture its Studio 54 panache, while Chanel’s Karl Lagerfield still woos critics with slightly tweaked versions of a...