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I could be wrong—­perhaps the Spartans did love freedom. Just as much as we do. After all, isn’t ours a time of war on Persian terror, of diabolic foreigners threatening our precious freedoms? Next time you read or watch history, be ready...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Freedom, Spartan Style | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew. Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their colour is a diabolic die." Remember, Christians, Negros, black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poems excerpted from 'Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery 1660-1810' | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

To call al-Arian's views pro-Muslim is slightly wrongheaded. One who rants "Death to Israel" and attracts notorious leaders of Islamic Jihad is not pro-Muslim but a militant hatemonger. We want our teachers to be positive role models for our children. Diabolic creeps like al-Arian do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 25, 2002 | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is holding a marvelous retrospective of Westermann's work, the first in a generation (the last one was in 1978, at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art; he died only three years after). It comes with excellent catalog essays by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Aesthete As Popeye | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

What Hannah Arendt called the banality of evil has engendered an astonishing banality of explanation. A 1991 installment of television's Unsolved Mysteries focused on three "Diabolic Minds"--those of Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Adolf Hitler. The Fuhrer, it seems, "had a stern father and was unable to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Why Was He So Evil? | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

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