Word: exemplar
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...leaders of our nation have also been quick to notice these outpourings, quick to commend those overseas for standing by the world’s leading democracy, for rushing to provide support for the global exemplar of justice, righteousness and the good. But there is a sad superficiality to these commendations. For, at the same time that America calls on the world to ardently preserve our sacred values, it must live up to a shameful history of having so rarely stood up for those values itself...
Striking a note of poetic justice in this chord of American disharmony, Monica Lewinsky has become the perfect exemplar of what's wrong with the system. Daughter of a well connected Beverly Hills doctor and family friend of a high rolling Democratic donor, Monica not only secured but was able to pursue her internship because she had the "in" and financial support...
...Brent Scowcroft--sounds almost like a board of directors for the foreign-policy establishment. He wants to maintain the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays. On the matters with which he's most familiar, in other words, the revolutionary outsider looks more like an exemplar of the status...