Word: deservedness
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Franklin's favorite device for poking fun at social mores and political outrages was the hoax. Unlike the frauds perpetrated by Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair, Franklin's satires were meant to be playful and to make a moral point, although they did occasionally deceive. "The Speech of Polly Baker...
All that said, I think Orwell would have warned against a long-term military presence in conquered nations. Give young soldiers life-or-death authority, far from home, and you should not be surprised if power goes to their heads. "In Burma," Orwell once wrote, "I was constantly struck by...
Your account of the atrocious behavior of the Hussein brothers showed that they were more brutal and evil than I ever could have imagined. How this family could hold sway over a country of more than 20 million is hard to understand. The continuing pain that Uday experienced from the...
I am disgusted by the wimpy Democrats. I wish that they would crawl out from under their beds and stand up for something, even if it is a well-deserved kick for not voicing their opinions on the war, tax breaks for the wealthy, threats to our environment, deepening national...
“He put up numbers that I believe were deserving of league recognition, but that didn’t happen,” Mazzoleni said. “From the position of our coaching staff, he definitely deserved a spot on the all-ECAC team.?...