Word: benightedness
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How can the world uplift benighted Afghanistan when that time comes? "There's not a specific plan," admits a State Department spokesman. However, in the back rooms of the world's capitals, an outline is beginning to emerge. The U.N. helped persuade the ousted King to convene a grand assembly...
Governments, unlike terrorists, respond to incentives and balk at threats. Henry A. Kissinger ’50 wrote on Sept. 12 that “any government that shelters groups capable of this kind of attack, whether or not they can be shown to have been involved in this attack...
But there is a fundamental difference between such natural skepticism aimed at discovering the truth and the deep distrust of the “regular” world that invents for ourselves new myths—the kind of “X-Files” mentality that makes conspiracies...
This year's Oscars were all about keeping it in control, a tight, safe and ultimately sterile production that was perfectly symbolized by the benighted "2001" set-design theme, full of monoliths and luminous spheres: the stage looked like the cover of a Yes album. To stay on schedule the...
Unfortunately, there are no good grounds to suppose that the Taliban can be deflected from their benighted campaign. Even the Metropolitan Museum's offer to purchase and transport pieces of the two Bamiyan Buddhas to New York was rebuffed by Taliban officials. Last week a very faint ray of hope...