Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their friend and would never ban abortion. If I had to guess, I would say he is either like his father, seemingly indifferent, or like his mother, seemingly pro-choice. But why should voters have to guess? If he really believes that every abortion is the taking of a human life, would he throw in the towel because not enough hearts agreed with him? Like most of us, Bush may well have a more nuanced position. But why risk revealing it when you can instead send a fuzzy message sufficient to keep voters confounded until the polls close? Actually...
Those two images--force and human tragedy--will serve as bookends for the Clinton doctrine, which Administration officials say the President will unveil in coming months. Kosovo, the President believes, has opened the door for NATO to fire shots outside its alliance when three "ifs" are satisfied: if there's a clear moral justification for using force (such as ethnic cleansing on the scale perpetrated by Milosevic), if the trouble spot is strategically important (a pan-Balkan war would have tested Eastern Europe's stability), and if the military operation can be undertaken without exacting a heavy price...
...save her mother from the hideous sight, Gentiana helped three women gather up the human debris of her father and 34 relatives and neighbors into little bags. They tagged each with a name and buried them in two communal graves. Then all those who had survived fled, some to the hills above the town of Pec, some to Albania, anywhere away from the Serbian brutality...
...rush to wire every classroom to the Internet, before we give our business to amazon.com instead of the local book store, before we pack our bags and bid au revoir to the real world, we eventually need to decide whether the cost of the convenience, in terms of human interaction, might be too great...
...member of the Harvard central administration--and the only vice president who preceded the Rudenstine era--is Vice President for Administration Nancy "Sally" H. Zeckhauser. Zeckhauser is responsible for the bulk of the University's massive bureaucracy, including Harvard Planning and Real Estate, Harvard Dining Services, Facilities Maintenance and Human Resources...