Word: kind
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Regardless of one's partisan leanings, we at Harvard ought to take special note of Bush's argument for moral education: "Yes, we want our children to be smart and successful, but even more, we want them to be good and kind and decent. Yes, our children must learn how to make a living. But even more, they must learn how to live and what to love...
Papandreou said the ideals of political globalization, because it is such a broad concept, must be adopted individually by each nation, and first conquered on a national level before engaging in any kind of international integration...
Although Judy Budnitz '95 was a VES and English concentrator, her most recent work and first novel, If I Told You Once, reads more like a disjointed Folklore and Mythology course text. Before embarking on the novel, she commented, "I have to outline it before I start, which kind of takes the fun out of it." This is close to what actually happened, for while her collection of short stories, Flying Leap, received critical acclaim, If I Told You Once lacks the candor, unexpected plots and zany characterizations of her first work. Budnitz's new book emerges as a poorly...
...politicians need to step on a few hands and cut a few corners in the name of the greater good (even if that means campaigning at the wake of a deceased friend), and yes, indeed, even virtuous people have a bit of vice in them. But if you're kind to your friends, then what does it matter? This is about as deeply as the play probes these potentially interesting moral issues, and such perfunctory treatment leaves the viewer vaguely dissatisfied, if not bored...
...between reality and fiction, and while there may not be rules about how to represent the truth, perhaps there should be responsibilities. In light of this, perhaps The Insider is being misrepresented as a "true" account; it might be more befitting of Mann to market his film as a kind of "historical fiction" than as the real thing...