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...concerned when I read that individuals who are supposedly the best and the brightest, the future leaders of society, blatantly steal large amounts of money and betray their friends' trust. Embezzlement, shoplifting, cheating on exams and lying all act to undermine the general welfare. I don't want to preach, but I want to conclude with this thought: if you can't act honestly for unselfish reasons, do it for selfish ones. Do it because it will help to make your life and your society better in the long...
...penetrate the Internet's sophisticated security barriers to steal information from companies and universities. But CIA officials believe their own computer system and the new Intelink are practically invulnerable to invasion by outsiders. There will always be the threat of government officials with security clearance who decide to betray their country and download intelligence files. Yet terminals inside Langley are routinely audited for suspicious activity, such as an unusual number of log-ins after hours or repeated failures to have a password accepted, usually symptomatic of a hacker testing out a host of computer-generated passwords. During their first polygraph...
...group who used the "L-word" to the hilt in the 1988 and 1992 presidential campaigns, conservatives certainly betray a lot of fear about the "C-word." Heaven forfend that any right-wing organizations should have the words "Republican" or "conservative" in their names! These opponents of gun control, among other things, could do much more towards becoming straight shooters...
...would treat humans as tokens, statistics or pawns), Greene made it his lifework to understand every position: one of his plays is even called Yes and No. And as a headmaster's son, he was a lifelong connoisseur of divided loyalties, knowing that for every commitment you honor, you betray another. As he put it in The Power and the Glory, "When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . When you saw the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate...
...scalding water on the body politic without one group or the other crying "Enough!"? If 1994's electoral trend continues, there may soon be few demons left to bitch about. And as Grant misses "those nice days when I was the only conservative on the scene," many radio rightists betray a truculent nostalgia for the old foes who became their roadkill: Cuomo, Howard Metzenbaum and the man from Arkansas who roams the White House like the Ghost of Clinton Past...