Word: instinctiveness
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...Killer instinct: that hot babe...
...burning car knowingly reduces his chance of survival to increase that of another. It is the willingness to risk one's life for a noble purpose that should define an act of heroism, not the saving of somebody's life coincident with saving your own - and certainly not the instinct for self-preservation. Bradley J. Hartman Havana, Florida, U.S. I very much appreciated Weisskopf's article and started to cry when I read about Specialist James Fair, the young man who suffered a brain injury, lost his eyesight and both hands. He weighs on my conscience because I support...
...professed secularism, my mother was in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I've ever known. She had an unswerving instinct for kindness, charity, and love, and spent much of her life acting on that instinct, sometimes to her detriment. Without the help of religious texts or outside authorities, she worked mightily to instill in me the values that many Americans learn in Sunday school: honesty, empathy, discipline, delayed gratification, and hard work. She raged at poverty and injustice...
...Think about your party's negatives A candidate's instinct is "to stick with your own tribe," Halperin says. But Clinton and Bush successfully addressed their parties' weak spots, like crime for the Dems and education for the G.O.P. "By doing that," says Halperin, "they not only appealed to independents but also strengthened their own parties." And their own electoral fortunes...
...finished the question. "There's a core decency to the American people that doesn't get enough attention," he said, sitting in his downtown Chicago office, casually dressed in jeans and a dark blue shirt. "Figures like Oprah, Tiger, Michael Jordan give people a shortcut to express their better instincts. You can be cynical about this. You can say, It's easy to love Oprah. It's harder to embrace the idea of putting more resources into opportunities for young black men--some of whom aren't so lovable. But I don't feel that way. I think...