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Congress, where "the idea of bombing Iraq has really fallen into trouble," is equally confused, says Fred Barnes ( The McLaughlin Group ). Will explains the appeal of bombing: It provides "gratification without commitment."
Mandela may lack the rousing American oratory of a President Kennedy, Martin Luther King or Jesse Jackson, but his manner and his unflappable dignity show him as a disciplined, persistent leader who is willing to sacrifice short-term gratification for long-term achievement, the kind of moral leadership we need everywhere.
It sounds as though your new supervisor is 5 years old and hellbent on instant gratification.
He mentions, for example, names that honor persons, names that have a religious background, names that express ego gratification and toponymic habituation (in which familiar names from the homeland are adopted to make a place seem a little less strange), names which show evidence of discovery, etc.
Polls show that Americans are willing to shun instant gratification to accomplish long-term goals such as repaying the federal debt or revamping Social Security.