Word: commitments
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...rationalizing modernity then be so different from 15th century France? Gilles de Rais, a comrade in arms of St. Joan of Arc, was one of the most famous soldiers in the Hundred Years War. But he used his power as a feudal lord to commit multiple murders with impunity. In satanic rites he sacrificed innumerable peasant children to the devil, sodomizing their dying bodies and preserving the heads of the "pretty" ones. In his book The Trial of Gilles de Rais, French historian Georges Bataille noted incredulously that the man given to butchering infants calmly raised a chapel dedicated...
...know, however, that in its police function the press relies less on the Constitution than on the Ten Commandments, although not all of them. "Thou shalt not steal" is much less interesting than "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Until recently, the cautious public figure searching for a baseline against which to measure his conduct could look to the Gary Hart scandal of 1987. Roughly translated, the Hart standard meant that the conduct in question had to be verified, reckless, substantial and current, by a candidate running for President. The challenge Follow Me was optional...
...medical establishment has been running a high fever, dashing off angry letters, signing petitions and marching in street demonstrations like any other disaffected interest group. "This is a bald-faced issue for doctors," says Dr. Marjorie Braude of the American Medical Women's Association. "It's asking us to commit malpractice...
...under the control of Leonid Brezhnev, whose armies occupied Afghanistan as well as Eastern Europe. The tenant in the White House was Ronald Reagan, who spoke for much of the world in denouncing the U.S.S.R. as an "evil empire," led by men who "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat." The No. 1 task of the U.S. was to prevent the Warsaw Pact from invading Western Europe and the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces from launching nuclear war against the American homeland...
...Laughs.)) Yes, it is true that I have differences with Mr. Escobar. All this started when Mr. Escobar called me and asked me to help him commit violent acts to get the Colombian government to abrogate the 1979 ((extradition)) treaty ((with the U.S.)). Mr. Escobar thinks that one must take justice into one's own hands. I don't agree. He thinks that a criminal can win a war against the state. I think that is absurd. The crimes he has committed in Colombia on the pretext of narco trafficking have been very grave mistakes...