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...anyone could remember, unprecedented. Last Friday morning, as Dominique de Villepin, the French Foreign Minister, finished his remarks before the United Nations Security Council, the galleries burst into spontaneous applause. De Villepin had said what most of those in the audience wanted to hear, that "war is always the sanction of failure" and that the use of force against Iraq "is not justified at this time." France, de Villepin said, "believes in our ability to build a better world together...
Distance once helped dampen the effects of human wickedness, and weapons once had limited range. But evil has burst into a new dimension. The globalization, democratization and miniaturization of the instruments of destruction (nuclear weapons or their diabolical chemical-biological stepbrothers) mean a quantum leap in the delivery systems of evil. This levels the playing field--and the level field has fungus on it. Every tinhorn with a chemistry set becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil...
...squad could not maintain its initial burst of energy and let its lead slip away...
When Hernandez had first mentioned applying to boarding school, her mother had burst into tears at the prospect of the family being divided. By the end of the application process, Hernandez says her parents were fully behind the idea. Her mother had been a professor of public administration in Mexico, an occupation she had been unable to continue in Texas because she spoke little English, and strongly encouraged her daughter’s education...
...Distance once helped dampen the effects of human wickedness, and weapons once had limited range. But evil has burst into a new dimension. The globalization, democratization and miniaturization of the instruments of destruction (nuclear weapons or their diabolical chemical-biological stepbrothers) mean a quantum leap in the delivery systems of evil. This levels the playing field - and the level field has fungus on it. Every tinhorn with a chemistry set becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil...