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...most demonic sins, for Dante, are the sins of the spirit. Hence Brunetto Latini, since he embodies a sensual sin, does not merit punishment so severe as that meted out to the spiritually corrupt...
...highest in 13 years, and foreign investors have agreed to underwrite the final stage of modernization to put the mines on a money-making basis. "We made the miners understand that it was not the army that was defeating them but, instead, that they themselves were defeating the corrupt union leaders who had used them for their own political purposes," said Barrientos, who, along with co-President Alfredo Ovando, flew to the mines shortly after the fighting ended to explain the government's policy...
...before he was 30. His mustache bristled, his eyes burned black, and his temper was so violent that his personal physician forbade him to eat meat. He drove his ragged armies to the spectacular victories that finally brought the revolution to power. Then, claiming its leaders were corrupt, he spent the next six years trying to destroy them, finally retired in disgrace. Ever since his death in 1923, Mexicans have argued whether Pancho Villa was the Robin Hood he claimed to be-or just an ambitious hood...
...explosion in the Dominican Republic serves as an urgent reminder that there are still many countries where poverty, Red agitation, corrupt and in efficient government are pressing dangers. Last week civil war flared in Bolivia, leftist riots continued in Colombia, and several other governments were flashing warning signals...
...intellectuals' influence and affluence worry many of them deeply. They agonize that the alliance with power will corrupt them, and that, as they are recognized, accepted and used, they will cease being creative, critical and useful. In Hofstadter's words, when intellectuals are not afraid of being shut out, they are afraid of being sold...