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...service. Because it is characterized by real compassion and strength, public morality includes acknowledging the humanity and rights of homosexuals, though peddlers of hate invoke it to do the opposite. Morality demands consistency in making human rights a guiding premise of foreign policy, not just a retroactive justification for fear-driven combat adventures. And it means that images and evidence of our moral failures should be taken as a stimulus for conscience, not a sign of the need to restrict cameras and protect against leaks...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: The Liberal Art of Redefinition | 5/28/2004 | See Source »

Motivated by fear-driven curiosity, the audiences watching the news at home, listening on the radio and reading the news stories posted on the web attentively collected bits and pieces of information about the crash. Motivated by financial pressure, the news networks worked tirelessly to stretch a tragic story with a heart-wrenching ending into a four-hour broadcast...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dollars From Death | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...BOOZMAN, an eye surgeon and Republican contender for the Senate in Arkansas, claimed that a fear-driven adrenaline rush keeps rape victims from getting pregnant. Guess someone slept through a semester in med school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oops! The Top Gaffes of Election '98 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...place and the mixed emotions of homecoming. Often compared by critics to noted expatriates (and fellow Nobel Laureates) Joseph Brodsky and Czeslaw Milosz, Heaney frequently writes about returning as an outsider to his homeland in Ireland. There he finds a rich heritage of language and myth, subjugated by the fear-driven assimilation of British culture forced upon Ireland with the onset of "The Troubles...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seamus Heaney Visits Harvard; 'Talks Shop,' Offers Recent Poetry, Translation of 'Beowolf' | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...sacrifices we have made...are not offered vicariously for others, but in our own direct defense...The issue now joined is whether...the next flight of fear-driven people...shall be checked and defeated overseas or permitted step by step to close in on our own homeland...Never have members of any military command had...a finer opportunity [to prove] an honor to the profession of arms and a credit to those who bred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: RIDGWAY TO THE TROOPS | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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