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...created an economic climate that brought our country the greatest growth ever,” Kerry said. “We balanced the budget, created a surplus and started paying down the debt. We had what some called a ‘virtuous cycle...
...Academy, whose headquarters is behind the Harvard Divinity School, was founded in 1780 to “cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people...
...fact, for a supposedly "warts and all" show, the series romanticizes its subject. For the most part, News's professionals, like The West Wing's, are "flawed" merely by being virtuous workaholics who sometimes make pragmatic choices. They spend most of their screen time chasing major stories, not celebrity arrests and missing-persons sagas. And by focusing on shoe-leather journalists, the six episodes sent to critics ignore the real mainstays of today's cable news: the daily aneurysms of O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, James Carville and the rest of the yak pack. If the show manages to come back...
...created a new kind of novel, one that combined a murder investigation with philosophical inquiry and introduced the world to the unfamiliar experience of reading about medieval theology while actually remaining awake. Eco helped invent the modern Euro-thriller: a sinfully addictive page turner that nevertheless leaves you feeling virtuous and cultured, without the hangover of shame that follows a sleepless night with Crichton or Clancy. This summer the Euro-thrillers are back, and they're not just good--they're good...
...industrialized world. We know that on average we eat too few fruits and vegetables and too much saturated fat, of which meat and dairy are prime contributors. We also know that in the real world, real diets--vegetarian and nonvegetarian--as consumed by real people range from primly virtuous to pig-out voracious. There are meat eaters who eat more and better vegetables than vegetarians, and vegetarians who eat more artery-clogging fats than meat eaters...