Word: enlightenedness
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So my first year at college, I read every student journal of opinion and took them all absolutely seriously. Peninsula enraged me; Perspective enlightened me; the Salient amused me. I was fascinated by the fact that students could make such sophisticated arguments. I started writing editorials because I wanted to...
This can be seen, for example, in the way Western observers keep moving the goalposts for that hero of democracy, Boris Yeltsin. Democracy lovers have been remarkably understanding as Yeltsin has shut down newspapers, produced a constitution out of his hip pocket that makes him virtual czar, forbidden candidates in...
In September, however, Rudenstine described theappeals court ruling as "an enlightened decision."
Trotman: What has changed is the realization that as a group -- group meaning Washington and the big auto companies in America -- we could over the last 20 years have done a much more enlightened job of serving society than we have done.
Much will depend on the city's leadership in the next decade -- a leadership that has been notoriously lacking in the past. "Miami has never had enlightened leadership. The Anglo establishment lives in the Miami of the '40s and '50s," gripes Maurice Ferre, the Puerto Rican-born county commissioner who...