The Daily News

Walter Cronkite

As children we knew our father meant business when he turned the television on at 5 p.m.  That was the time for local news.  If we had anything to say, we went to our rooms.  Nobody Interrupted the news.  Then at six, the all -important national news came on and was never missed at our …

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Bread and Circuses: Largesse Favors the Timid

Bread and Circuses: Largesse Favors the Timid If Fortune favors the bold, largess favors the timid. Largesse allows people to settle for less to avoid work, inhibits risk-taking, and dampens the drive to grow and to thrive. The bread and circuses approach to governance distracts a people of low virtue into a stupor where they …

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