Word: touche
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...must apply our conservative and free-market ideas to the job of helping real human beings," he said, "because any ideology, no matter how right in theory, is sterile and empty without that goal." And while he labeled his chief Democratic rival, Vice President Al Gore, an out-of-touch "Washington politician," Bush also lectured conservatives that "government is not the enemy of the American people." Even Bush's father was an indirect target. "It is not enough [just] to call for volunteerism," said W., suggesting that simply praising charities as President Bush once did with his "points of light...
...ritual morning ablution. As the mahant, or spiritual and administrative head, of the second largest temple in Varanasi, the main destination for Hindu pilgrims in India, Mishra is a very important man. Since the 16th century, the job has passed from father to eldest son. Devotees scramble to touch his feet, traders whisper their business hopes, and students seek his blessing before final exams. As a child he learned the sacred chants and rites--including the importance of a daily dip in the Ganges, the river that Hindus worship for its purity. Mishra cups his hands to scoop up water...
...legacy I had been kept from inheriting. The lives of my family had swirled around the river; my grandfather was a fisherman; that's where families gathered. I discovered that connection. But then there was a larger connection. It seemed that every community on the river had lost touch with it and with the notion that the river was their home. The greatest single tragedy on the Hudson is that hundreds of years of history are disappearing. It's like burning down a museum or trashing a library. The loss is devastating and profound...
...beauty of my job," says Cronin, "is that it allows me to be in touch with the rhythms of the river and to understand what it means to fit the rhythms of your life around those other rhythms. When you are a fisherman, one of the rhythms is the tide. To fish for shad, you go out two hours before high tide, but every day the hours change. One week you're having breakfast at 7 a.m., the next at 2 in the afternoon. And all this extends to life on the shore, to the people who come down...
...much as Caroline loved her aunts and uncles and cousins, she had chosen last weekend to go rafting out West with her husband and three children. It's hard to picture her bucking herself up in the Kennedy way, throwing herself into games of touch football, sailing off the Cape. She will instead fall back on what her mother so carefully passed along--her normalcy and wholeness--and something her mother never thought she would have needed: the strength to bury someone you love way too soon...