Word: deservingness
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"They were three women, three liberals and three mediocrities," Mansfield said. Three recent Commencement speakers--Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Philipine President Corazon Aquino and former Irish President Mary R. Robinson--were thus summed up in a single, beautiful sentence. One can hardly argue with the fact that...
There is no denying that the novel leaves us with an unpleasant impression of the court, a secret and hidden organization moving along at a slow pace with each procedure being delayed by bureaucracy, hiring incompetent and often corrupt employees and mistreating them. Yet there is a contrast that clearly...
"I've visited Johannesburg twice and definitely have a more intense feeling because of it, but everyone in general should recognize what an amazing man he is and how deserving he is of this award," Abrahams said.
It lingers in our mind despite the fact that there are other things deserving of our attention. The news gods, from their perch high atop the CNN building in Atlanta, have been hurling down one "important" story after another--all in the name of calling our bluff about our desire...
At a time when record buyers are abandoning the monotony of alternative rock in favor of the music smorgasbord of movie soundtrack albums, it is perhaps no surprise that the DMB has broken out. For years the band's hard-to-categorize music was scorned by serious rock critics, who...