Word: absolutist
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...height of his absolutist influence, Louis XIV ordered a quick, decisive and successful bombardment of Algiers for harboring pirates. Afterward, a medal commemorating the event was inscribed with the words, "Algeria Fulminata" [Algiers Struck by Lightning]. In much the same vein, President Reagan could announce our successful blitzkrieg on the unruly Quadaffi in Libya in April, 1987; at the time, the U.S. still enjoyed virtual Sun King status in the West...
...latest evidence from the Senate suggests that we still entertain much of our former absolutist self-image. We would like to keep our royal prerogative in international affairs, but are unwilling to recognize the new diplomatic environment in which we will have to exercise it. Affirming our superpower status with nuclear subs and Star Wars hardly moves us in the right direction; the Senate's resolution threatens to seriously derail our central role in the development of collective security...
...nothing else positive comes from it, the Supreme Court's recent 9-0 decision against gay activists in the St. Patrick's Day Parade case demonstrates that this finger-pointing is both unwise and unnecessary. Judge Souter's "First Amendment absolutist" opinion places the Supreme Court squarely on the side of powerful interests which have thwarted the liberal agenda for years. The roots of oppression run deep, but a considered response to this sociologically ignorant jurisprudence can help lead liberalism out of its current quarrels and into a coherent advocacy role in the 21st century...
...cover. Some events at Harvard affect us all; and (though we at 14 Plympton try to report news rather than make it) sometimes we write about The Crimson itself. From these cases, and others, it can be seen that completely eliminating conflict of interest--being a "conflict of interest absolutist" if you will--isn't possible...
...says Eugene Bianchi, an ex-Jesuit priest who currently teaches religion at Emory University. "But I think those kinds of persons are far fewer than the priests we have." Mandatory celibacy, Bianchi contends, encourages sexual immorality, which is symptomatic of larger structural problems in what he calls a "monarchical, absolutist" church: "The celibate clerical system is collapsing, and it is not going to be regenerated...