Word: humanity
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Stevie Wonder, Musician "Human Nature" When I first heard it I was over at Quincy [Jones'] home and we danced to the music. It was magical...
...much does this matter? More than words can say. There is no other single force causing as much measurable hardship and human misery in this country as the collapse of marriage. It hurts children, it reduces mothers' financial security, and it has landed with particular devastation on those who can bear it least: the nation's underclass...
...musical passage for a dancer onstage. Othello is a big challenge, one of the few if not the only commissioned American ballet to be in three acts. Given that it's a full evening of dance, there are all kinds of limitations in terms of how much a human being can be taxed. In symphonic works, you can have an adagio that lasts 40 minutes, but in ballet, it would be far too taxing for a soloist onstage that long...
...absolutely necessary to our economy,” said State Senator Mary Ann Handley, a Democrat. But which services are “necessary”? Though Democrats sliced $2 billion from the budget, they saved items that were less than essential, like $12 million for the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities and $1 million for the Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission. When the state is losing money, it should keep the agencies that provide services, not the commissions that provide forums...
...university student in Toronto who is involved with the York Federation of Students but has helped out groups like the Tamil Youth Organization in the past. "A lot of us have never been to Sri Lanka or seen the circumstances there, but we know the fundamental laws of human rights...