Word: mindedness
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.On his split personality, merging the liberal social activist with the money-minded manager: "I was a boy who worked in his father's dry cleaners and a college graduate who went to the Peace Corps."
Vance, who will turn 75 this month, is the ultimate troubleshooter: fair- minded and tenacious, self-confident yet self-effacing, and utterly dedicated to the musty idea that a private citizen should engage in public service. Soon after World War II, he joined the old-line Wall Street law firm...
Kozol laments what he sees as a loss of idealism among these "decent-minded, progressive people. "While some of these people travelled to Mississippi to register blacks in the summer of 1964, Kozol says, "today it's their kids, and they don't want them going to school with anyone...
This group claims that it is defending the right of people to speak their minds against the close-minded and hard-handed censorship of the politically correct left.
For Yamaguchi, Olympic glory is the culmination of a single-minded 14-year quest. She is a fourth-generation American, raised in Fremont, where her father is a dentist. Kristi was born with clubfeet, but the condition was corrected, and by six she was on the ice for keeps. For...