As President Obama prepares to deliver his State of the Union address tonight with an expected call for civility, the Arizona legislature is taking up a bill with a less chummy message to the federal government.
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Attacking Gingrich is a standard Democratic ploy, but in the Lewinsky affair it had been hard to do as long as Gingrich stayed behind the curtain, venturing forth only to make high-minded statements about the need for civility at a moment of this historic magnitude.
He enlisted prominent judges and lawyers for a civility video, and, with Mr. Smith, persuaded the trial lawyers group to develop an entire program on the topic.
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Zogby International recently completed an extensive telephone survey for Allegheny College on civility and the need for compromise in politics.
It is a grim context for a return to civility, but an encouraging sign of potential cooperation as Japan pursues its rescue and recovery efforts.
And he asked, is there hope for us returning to civility in our discourse, to a healthy legislative process, so as I strap on the boots again tomorrow, I know that you guys got it under control?
The congressman apologized Thursday for his "lack of civility" and said he had been directed to call the White House to clear the air.
With some justice, Mr Turabi can claim credit for having maintained this veil of civility in a traumatised society.
For all the crying by global warming alarmists about the lack of civility in the global warming debate, almost all of the over-the-top vitriol among spokespersons for each point of view emanates from the alarmist crowd.
Maybe so, but is the rest of the country ready for Bradley's message of kindness and civility?
Whatever the reason, liberals continue to do so freely because they know the civility police will never be coming for them.
Maintain civility during the exit interview and ask for some candid feedback about yourself and specifics about why you were let go.
While the main findings from the Allegheny study focus on the interest among the public in a return to political civility, opinions on the current state of politics in Washington have interesting implications for the November elections.
There are long-term trends which threaten to undermine good manners, the report says: busy lives in dense and transitory communities make civility harder and new technologies such as mobile phones and the internet have developed too fast for codes of acceptable behaviour to develop.
With a blandly dismissive anti-romanticism, the director sees through the pretenses of civility to the mediocrity, disappointment, venality, gullibility, duplicity, and boredom that pass for daily life.
Such benefits of civility were scarcely visible in the rowdy Harvard students and others who forced cancelation of a university dinner for alumni at their university's recent 350th birthday celebration because they objected to the university's investments in companies doing business in South Africa.
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