Word: fear
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...true fear is not that they will pose a security threat but that they will serve as living reminders of the Administration's mistakes in setting up Guantánamo...
...years of vanity, Constitution-shredding and a high-school-level understanding of geopolitics. It was then that I realized that presidential elections are more about biology than intellect. All Karl Rove had to do was present George W. Bush as the alpha dog and season with large doses of fear: pack mentality would certainly do the rest. James Spooner, ALBUQUERQUE...
...brains of thinking white voters register alarm when they hear fear-inciting words from Republican candidates. People, white and black, will vote for Obama because they use their brains. Doris Schaffer, FALLBROOK, CALIF...
Like Gilbert, I have found myself in anguish over the fact that my dad and I will vote differently in November. Why does it seem so intolerable? I fear that something cultural--and quite dangerous--is at work. In our public discourse, Americans can't seem to discuss and debate issues with anything approaching respect or intellectual honesty. We oversimplify, we distort, we dismiss. We turn the challengers into enemies. And when that madness infects our private discourse, our family members become foes. Not good for family harmony--and not a very wise way to go about choosing a world...
...address, which often happens when several students share a name. It will also be much easier to identify students based on their e-mail address. Furthermore, this change will aid in contacting students, if their name—but not their e-mail address—is known. We fear that if given the opportunity to fully customize their e-mail addresses, incoming freshmen might opt for confusing or inappropriate tags, such as “drew.faust@college” or “beer@college,” only to regret it when they find themselves applying for jobs...