Word: hurtfulness
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...little talk. I knew what was coming. "Your story starts are down," he said. "And your cliché count is out of sight. " I reminded the boss that I had led the league in snappy adjectives the year before. And early in the '99 season I'd hurt my right index finger trying desperately to pound out a deadline piece on the Super Bowl. I was playing hurt. But you know how managers are. This is the news weekly pal, he said with some disdain. What have you done for me next week...
...Eleanor Perry from the story by Gail Rock, and directed by Paul Bogart, one of the All In the Family sitcom directors) is that it avoids the patented feel-good denouement of most Christmas dramas and takes us through a richer, more believable change in Robards' character. The inner hurt Addie endures at the hands of a father who can barely tolerate her presence is heart-wrenching; but her eventual triumph over it, and the unexpected act of generosity that brings it about, are as heart-warming as watching one of your children do the right thing without being told...
...anyone might have been there on an afternoon close to Christmas. I even had a high school friend who worked there—not so close that I had her phone number, but close enough that I was concerned. No one knew who had been there, who had been hurt, or who had died. A horrifying afternoon faded into a tense evening...
...Huckabee's remarks about AIDS and gays won't hurt him in Iowa, Scheffler contended. "Homosexuality is a sin. I'm in full agreement with him. Most people who are supporting Huckabee or any candidate would concur with that statement and would hope their candidates do, too. It doesn't mean you discriminate, it just doesn't mean you'd condone a sinful lifestyle...
...public often assumes that what we do not know about the operations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) cannot hurt us. Indeed, we hope that the CIA may protect us. Yet time and time again, hindsight has revealed that this trust was misplaced, as troubling facts about the CIA and its practices have come to light. These are trespasses for which the agency offers no apology, only evasion and qualification. The destruction of videotapes depicting the interrogation of terrorist operatives represents the latest in a series of violations of public trust in what seems like a return to the disconcerting...