Word: fears
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...awareness is evident in an intriguing 5th century wooden sculpture at the Royal Academy, in which citizens defend a walled city from an encircling horde. The piece is ostensibly a portrait of Constantinople's strength. But the citizens' vertiginous perch also means they have further to fall; as the fear on their faces shows, their position is more precarious than that of the invaders below. Over the centuries, Constantinople faced attacks from Goths, Persians, Bulgars, Russians, Papal crusaders and Arabs - and from the Turks, who eventually overran the city after the brutal siege of 1453. And while its people were...
...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...