Word: devil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Initial appraisals of arms-control plans must always be tempered by the thought, endlessly intoned by negotiators, that "the devil is in the details." Even plans like Bush's that attempt to cut through confusion get into some fearsome complexities. A closer look at the main elements...
...were wilting in the relentless August sun last week, but the rage of local blacks toward Hasidic Jews in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., was undiminished. WE WANT THE JEWISH MURDERER ARRESTED NOW, read one sign there. NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE, read another. THE WHITE IS THE DEVIL, proclaimed still another...
...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 to the Holy Innocents -- the children slaughtered in Bethlehem by Herod...
...crybaby, on the other hand, is the abject, manipulative little devil with the lawyer and, so to speak, the actionable diaper rash. He is a mayor of Washington, arrested (and captured on videotape) as he smokes crack in a hotel room with a woman not his wife. He pronounces himself a victim -- of the woman, of white injustice, of the universe. Whatever...
...vent their grievances, pursue their aspirations and raise their flags, George Bush's instincts, formed during the cold war, sometimes seem outmoded. He has been too quick to endorse the status quo. By defeating Saddam Hussein but then letting him remain the President of Iraq, Bush chose the devil he knew over the uncertainties represented by Kurdish and Shi'ite rebels. In his response to the dizzying events in the U.S.S.R. and Yugoslavia, Bush has been slow to realize that multinational communist states are, almost by definition, relics of a cruel, failed ideology and therefore not viable in anything like...