Word: rewardingly
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...surprising that Extreme is crass, but it is also maudlin. (As is TLC's plastic-surgery show, A Personal Story. In its credits, words float across the screen: LIPOSUCTION ... SELF-ESTEEM ... BREAST AUGMENTATION ... DIGNITY ... RHINOPLASTY.) A stay-at-home mom on Extreme describes her surgery as a reward for years of self-sacrifice ("This is something Mommy's just gotta do for me"). One hour and one mostly bloodless depiction of surgery later, she's gone from looking like a Dorothea Lange Dust Bowl photo subject to looking like a talk-show host, as if not just her face...
...more actively with African leaders and problems, offering aid and promoting cooperation and good governance. Given the strategic concerns, however, good governance may fall down the priority list. Good governance requires transparency, accountability, the rule of law and democracy. But the war on terrorism has reinforced a tendency to reward high-handed authoritarianism when its perpetrators are targeting U.S. enemies. There'll be no complaints, for example, about Malawi's decision last week to ignore its own courts in order to expedite the extradition of five al-Qaeda suspects to the U.S. And good governance has been an exceedingly rare...
...underlings are the blue-collar counterpart to last season's no-hope drug soldiers, who are on the scene this year too. If The Wire depicts a war on crime, it is World War I, its weary sides facing off in the trenches, with little hope of victory or reward. The cops soldier on anyway, driven less by idealism than stubbornness. They deserve recognition. And so does TV's hardest-working drama. --By James Poniewozik
...right about then that I realized I had spent the last four years in denial, pretending there was no reward where there was no glory. Marty steered me out of, in his words, a culture of disappointment to the culture of what’s next. For that badly needed perspective, I can’t say thank you enough...
Fortunately, Harvard teaches its undergraduates to be a lot smarter than monkeys. But all too often, in the social sciences at least, Harvard doesn’t force its students to do much more than parrots. Social science courses all too often reward superficial repetition rather than in-depth, original scholarship...