Word: meaningfulness
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Meaning Americans want what, exactly?
More common than a blanket defense of exemptions is a query: Isn't there a way to discourage faith-healing-related deaths that is less harsh and more proactive than throwing well-meaning, bereaved parents in jail after the tragic fact? In 1994 Minnesota passed a law requiring parents to...
Last week in Hong Kong, a multibillion-dollar game of chicken was being played out. Currency speculators--the kind of financial gamblers whose cold-bloodedness could freeze mercury at 10 paces--made a run at the Hong Kong dollar, essentially trying to force its value vs. the U.S. dollar lower...
Saints aspire to simplicity. On the other hand, writers who drink too much sometimes like to think of themselves as complicated. "The most complicated subject that I know, since I am a man," wrote Ernest Hemingway, "is a man's life"--meaning that the most complicated subject he knew was...
Even if the word-wiggle keeps Clinton out of the perjury trap, it won't help him politically because it doesn't account for his Jan. 26 televised insistence that he "did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." When he spoke before the cameras, the lawyerly definition...