Word: unyieldingness
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It was typical of Henry Grunwald's unyielding honesty and his precise mind that he disapproved of using the words "passed away" to refer to someone who has died. So I will honor him in reporting what is sad news in the unequivocal language he would have insisted upon. Henry...
Ever since the Pope barely survived a 1981 assassination attempt, Catholics worldwide have got used to praying for his health. Whenever John Paul II has a setback - and he's had quite a few in the past 10 years - speculation about his successor ratchets up another notch. So when the...
When Jonathan Schnur was in grade school, he never lobbed spitballs or did the things that land kids in the principal's office. In fact, as a third-grader in suburban Milwaukee, Wis., he was mentoring kindergartners. Today Schnur, 38, remains dedicated to education. In 2000, Schnur and four colleagues...
After Arafat, might that dream be closer? For all the expressions of Palestinian grief as his body was returned to Ramallah on Friday, there were also quiet intimations of hope around the world--hope that the death of the unyielding Palestinian leader might bring a fresh opportunity to break the...
The other school--composed of neoconservatives, religious conservatives and most Democrats--scoffs at the idea of an outbreak of diplomacy and bipartisanship. Bush is who he is: bold, tough, faith based, unyielding. "He's got the biggest balls of anyone you've ever seen," Vice President Cheney has been known...