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...Democrats lavished a good deal of condescension on the Bush convention. They jeered all week at the GOP's kinder-and-gentler diversity pageant, arguing that the gaudy display of pigmentations and orientations and live-and-let-live gem?tlichkeit bears no relation to Republican politics in the real world. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, implying that the African-Americans on stage in Philadelphia were singing and dancing in a vicious minstrel show, had the effrontery to suggest that Colin Powell was insufficiently black...
...that aim, as he puts it, "to raise the clock speed of manufacturing culture." Jacobs is planning to do what Kirila originally intended: to lease the patented VEC system in the same way that Pitney Bowes used to lease stamp machines. "We're proving we can do it better, kinder, cleaner," says Jacobs, who has lost none of his salesmanship. "The world is going to come to us." And learn how to make things the new-economy...
...questioning the sincerity of people like Rudy who approach crisis as an opportunity for personal growth. But this whole notion that adversity, and especially the specter of fatal illness, should turn you into a better, kinder person is not only erroneous, but it also creates burdensome expectations for people who already have enough trouble. I know a lot of men who've had prostate cancer, and they're the same self-involved, officious, spiteful curs they were before they had prostate cancer. And bully for them. Having cancer is bad enough--you don't have to turn yourself into...
...Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland) is winning applause for his not-so-crazy campaign to combat what he calls "the wanton destruction that has taken place...in the name of progress." For 30 years the Prince has been in the forefront of efforts to promote kinder, gentler farming methods; protect Britain's countryside from urban sprawl; improve city landscapes; and safeguard the nation's architectural heritage. And whereas his was once a lonely if plummy voice crying in the wilderness, the Prince has seen many of his once maverick opinions become mainstream...
Society's disrespect for genuine good-hearted concern for our fellow beings has been passed on to today's youth. Kinder treatment of animals seems to be a dream of the past, publicly trounced by Prince William's unabashed affection for fox hunting with hounds...