Word: graciousness
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...contrast, Randall Balmer, head of the religion department at Barnard College in New York City, says exemplarist Christians might support issues like gay rights on the ground of "Jesus' compassion for humanity, which we ought to emulate by being gracious and accepting and inclusive and noncondemnatory." Martin Luther King Jr.'s affirmation that "an unearned suffering is redemptive" was exemplarist, although his theology didn't boil down to just that...
...discovered the sweet smell of success. Christine Dimmick was only 25 when she started the Good Home Co. in the kitchen of her New York City apartment in 1995. Today the company's 25 products are sold in high-end hardware stores and specialty shops like Restoration Hardware and Gracious Home, and its annual sales exceed $4 million. Dimmick took her cues from the craze for aromatherapy candles and oils and environmental concerns about harsh chemical cleaning products. "I thought, 'Why can't a product work well, not be full of chemicals and smell great?'" she explains...
...biography has striking parallels to that of Mohamed Atta, the leader of the Hamburg 9/11 cell. After growing up in a middle-class family in Tunis, Fakhet moved to Madrid in 1994, armed with €29,500 in Spanish-government scholarships to study economics. "At first he was gracious and engaging," says Miguel Pérez Martín, a professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he met Fakhet as a fellow student in 1996. Over the next few years the Tunisian withdrew from his studies and the world in general. "He grew incommunicative, and he told...
...evening in October 2000 when Bush and Al Gore competed head-to-head at the New York Archdiocese's Al Smith dinner. A brief, humorous speech was called for--and Bush smoked Gore, making most of the jokes at his own expense. Gore was funny too, but less gracious. Bush won the evening when he said, "My opponent and I have had some strong differences, but let me tell you a few things I've learned in this campaign ... He's a person of energy and skill and determination. Mr. Vice President, I can't wish you success...
...SOSKIN: Thanks for your gracious congrats on my Oscar predictions, which even I wasn’t expecting would be so accurate (do I get extra points for guessing the breath spray?). Honestly, though, I wish that I had missed in more of the categories—it wasn’t worth sitting through four hours of foregone conclusions just to get gloating privileges...