Word: heartedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drawing ire from colleagues as a result of being overly sensitive to them—a balancing act that he sometimes finds difficult. “I don’t get invited to parties much nowadays,” he joked. Jensen, who is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege, began the discussion by quoting a passage from the W.E.B. Du Bois book, The Souls of Black Folk. In this excerpt, Du Bois commented on a question that he felt Caucasians often implicitly asked of him, “How does...
...first novel. Karen Russell, who attended Columbia’s MFA program with James and had several workshops with her, praised her former classmate’s work. “Her sense of humor has an incredible inventiveness, but there is also a lot of heart to it,” said Russell, also a published author. “And there is sort of a kinetic energy to her writing—every sentence is humming with life.” Jordan Pavlin, a senior editor at Knopf for both James and Russell, expressed optimism not only about...
...Internal Revenue Service seems like a faceless bureaucracy without much heart, says a former insider, that may be because it is. Richard Yancey has seen the all-powerful IRS from the inside out, spending 12 years as a government "repo man" pursuing businesses and individuals with long overdue taxes. Yancey left the job in 2003 with decidedly mixed impressions, which he writes about in his memoir, Confessions of a Tax Collector. Yancey spoke with TIME about his years as a revenue officer, getting jumped on the job and what to do if the IRS comes knocking. (Read "Another Victim...
...status declined this year, and 57% now think the American Dream is harder to achieve. And yet pain and promise are a package deal; even after all this, fully 56% believe that America's best days are ahead. It would be nice if it took something short of a heart attack to get us to work out, eat better and spend more time with our kids. But in the end, where we wind up matters more than how we got there...
...earthquake shook up more than the capital city. It exposed the corrupt political system and gave heart to a remarkably talented (if occasionally arrogant) set of technocrats. Forgiving the mid-1990s, when the peso had to be rescued by the Clinton Administration, the Mexican economy has shown great resilience in the past 20 years as Mexico oriented itself to the outside world, joined the World Trade Organization and signed the North American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. and Canada. Even in the first years of this decade, when the shift of global manufacturing to China threatened to derail Mexican...