Word: kinds
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...speech. But the tears in his eyes and in his voice were obvious twice, visible and audible even in the adjacent rooms on Simulcast. No matter what you might think of Cuomo, or even if you couldn't care less about Cuomo, you have to admit that it's kind of strange to see someone crying in the ARCO Forum--especially when that person is the keynote speaker. And it's worth taking a minute, especially if you missed his speech, to see what he was crying about...
Perhaps what America needs, Cuomo suggested, is some kind of hero, a redemptive figure who would emerge onto the American scene and bring us the solutions that seem just outside our grasp. "Moses," he mused, "maybe if Moses came back...even Alan Simpson here wouldn't argue with Moses...
Students who took moral reasoning or philosophycourses made especially large gains in theirwriting, something Sommers attributes to the "verydifferent kind of writing and topics" in thosetypes of classes...
...great delicacy. Handled and prepared carefully, it can be relished without concern. But the fish contains a fatal poison in its skin known as tetrodotoxin, which can kill in minutes. So it is with our relationship to the past: if we approach it thoughtfully, it can provide a kind of nourishment for our lives in the present. The great danger of history is cheap nostalgia, seducing us into loving the past simply because...
...Doing this kind of critical, independentthinking is what a liberal arts educations is allabout," she adds...