Word: humanity
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...cannot be won; the best that can be achieved is for the allies to hold the fort while every attempt is made to give the country some semblance of order. Buying a few tons of opium is likely to come cheaper in terms of both money and human life than the campaign has so far proved. Philip Foster, NARBONNE, FRANCE...
Many Italians don't care about his conflicts of interest (who hasn't got a few?) or his problems with the law (defendants are more simpatico than prosecutors). Broken promises, half-truths, unanswered questions? The word accountability doesn't translate well into Italian. This is the land of human nature, as one American traveller once said. And of emotional politics. France is a bit like that too. It's no coincidence that a bright, quick, short populist, who also happens to be a bit of a ladies' man, is running the show in Paris. Like us, the French see politicians...
...deadliest pandemics in human history - the Black Death of the 14th century, which killed roughly 25 million people in Europe - resulted in massive social dislocation and doubt in an omnipotent God, which some scholars think led to the intellectual ferment of the Renaissance. Cholera, when it came to Europe in the 1830s, led to the overhaul of public health and sanitation. Human vulnerability can paradoxically lead to the triumph of human confidence - the knowledge that progress can survive even the most dreadful diseases...
Along with the FAS Human Resources Organizational Development (OD) team and in conjunction with the University’s Center for Workforce Development (CWD) team, departments, divisions, centers and tubs are assessing areas – such as in media services, library services, and building operations – where further restructuring and work process changes might yield new efficiencies...
Taken on face value, however, Benedict's brief remarks were eloquent, a kind of prayerful meditation about how the names of those murdered renders them nonetheless inextinguishable from the eternal book of human history. "They lost their lives but they will never lose their names," the Pope said, speaking in his softly accented English. "These are indelibly etched in the hearts of their loved ones, their surviving fellow prisoners, and all those determined never to allow such an atrocity to disgrace mankind again." The Pope clearly grasps the scope and horror of the Holocaust. He added this chilling contemplation...