Word: temperedness
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Last week, excitement over a spate of good weather was tempered by the announcement that, in the last fiscal year, Harvard’s endowment plunged 27.3 percent. Its total value fell approximately $11 billion to $26 billion, a loss greater than the total endowments of all but three other...
Burke. Buckley. Limbaugh? Modern conservatism has decayed from the positive, pragmatic force its founders envisioned into a bitter resistance movement that's given up on fresh ideas, argues Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review. While Richard Nixon backed national health insurance and Ronald Reagan tempered his...
It would never occur to me, or most black people I know, to offer a police officer a lecture on race or to say, as Gates is alleged to have said, "You don't know who you're messing with." For the most part, we're trained by our mothers...
Now, Gates seems to have tempered his own incendiary demands for an apology as well, stating that his "principal regret" was distracting attention from the President's health care initiative. He said that he would use a new documentary for PBS to study the history of racial profiling.
Whatever Sonia Sotomayor does to reward herself - a glass of wine, an ice cream sundae, a bubble bath - surely she must be giving herself a small pat on the back after surviving her first day of cross-examination by the Senate Judiciary Committee without any kind of gaffe. Despite the...