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Evil is the Bad hardened into the absolute. Good and evil contend in every mind. Evil comes into its own when it crosses a line and commits itself and hardens its heart, when it becomes merciless, relentless...
Like all athletes who continue to play after a championship season, Reilly had to contend with the gloom of falling short of that shining moment. As the losses piled up, Reilly--the Crimson's leader--took them personally. Growing up in the lacrosse hotbed of Long Island, he had never known anything besides winning...
...debate over whether the death penalty is a deterrent to crime is writ large when it comes to televising it. The horrible images, proponents say, would certainly give pause to potential criminals. Others contend that the gruesome thrill of watching a state-sanctioned murder could, in some twisted way, make all murder seem more acceptable. "There is evidence that immediately following an execution, violence increases," says Martin Rosenthal of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School. "It puts out the subliminal message that the solution is violence." Inside San Quentin, authorities are concerned that other death-row inmates...
With enormous amounts of air time to fill, these all-news channels can be dull and repetitive. Their audiences, moreover, are still small; neither of the local news channels now in operation is turning a profit. But industry observers contend that these channels fill a need, and will eventually attract plenty of viewers and provide a lucrative advertising niche. "News is the most expensive programming," says media analyst Paul Kagan. "But for a cable system, it is a big traffic builder." So those traffic reports will come in handy...
Food companies contend that the confusion about their labeling stems not from deception on their part but from the government's failure to issue clear guidelines for making nutritional and health claims. The FDA plans to set forth revised labeling rules next year. "Once these regulations are out," says John Cady, president of the National Food Processors Association, "industry will know clearly what the FDA expects and will certainly comply." Cady charges that Kessler's current "hunt-and-peck approach" of | targeting big companies is largely an effort to shine up the FDA's tarnished image...