Word: respectibility
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...provided an accurate perspective that is a must-read. We need to know more about people such as Putin and runner-up Hu Jintao, since Russia and China will be our most formidable partners in the 21st century. We must learn to be equals, to develop a healthy respect for them and be respected by them. Robert Schieck, Antioch...
Voters sense correctly that politics is an act. As a political campaign gets more and more professionalized, it becomes more and more of an act. This is one area in which the media and the voters really diverge. Political correspondents respect the professionalism of a well-run campaign and are quickly bored by complaints of artifice. Voters, meanwhile, still take offense and long for sincerity. This explains the cult of Harry Truman, which usually breaks out around October of election years. Among the current candidates, it explains John McCain, whose behavior as a prisoner of war brings him about...
...Those gathered treated the former Massachusetts governor with respect and somewhat distracted enthusiasm. Romney marched through each event with studied conviviality. After an abbreviated stump speech, he would walk gingerly through the crowd, stopping to comment when someone was decked out in conspicuous sports gear. In Johnston, he patted the shoulder of a man in a University of Missouri jersey and asked, "Oh, are you a 'grad'? I mean, a graduate...
...Part of culture is the ability to develop new artistic forms. In this respect, France is responsible for having considerably revived the worlds of contemporary dance, circus arts and street theater. Our artists in these fields are in demand all over the world and meet with resounding success: recently in Santiago, the theater group Royal de Luxe got 1 million people out in the street...
...evidence that the vote may have been rigged. On Monday, the U.S., whose State Department at first congratulated Kibaki on his victory, issued a statement through its Nairobi embassy saying it was concerned by "serious problems experienced during the vote counting process." "These included various anomalies with respect to unrealistically high voter turnout rates, close to 100% in some constituencies," it said. Koki Muli, co-chair of a domestic observer group called KEDOF, added: "The electoral process lost credibility toward the end with regard to tallying and announcement of presidential results...