Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There has been no conclusive evidence that the death penalty deters crime. And why would it? The criminals society hopes to target are irrational and sick. Consequences, punishments, death versus life in prison without parole--these calculations are likely not made in the minds of the ill and the evil...
...response to the anticipated visit, students have said Harvard should be ashamed to host such an "evil man." They have condemned China's human rights violations, and vowed to show Jiang what the right to free speech means in America by interrupting his speech if necessary...
...modern China equivalent to Nazi Germany? Of course not. It is, however, a brutal, tyrannical regime. Modern China may be less evil than regimes we have faced in the past, but there is no one worse presently on the world scene. The United States, as the world's preeminent power and the world's oldest democracy, has an obligation to at the least make some effort to modify Chinese behavior. Engagement with the Chinese government may well be the most effective strategy for the United States to use to affect the Chinese government. Arguing that the people of China...
...Voight, 58, has come a long way since he played Rolf in Broadway's original Sound of Music, or even since his Oscar-winning turn as the archetypal '70s-sensitive guy in Coming Home. In Anaconda, Heat and U-Turn, Voight has proved he can be as scrofulous and evil as the next bad guy. But it takes some effort. "For Heat I was in the makeup chair for four hours," says Voight, who sought a "fungal quality" for his skin. "When I first arrived on the set, a guy went up to my makeup artist and said, 'I used...
...country is so short on big things--heroes, villains, conflicts--that we've had to inflate little things and pretend they're big. Our statesmen used to revile Hitler, Mussolini, the godless Reds--large and sinister enemies who wanted to take over the world. Now the the focus of evil in American life is...the tobacco industry. The fellows who make cigarettes may be--indeed are--mendacious, but they do produce a legal product that earlier generations found alternately pleasurable and obnoxious but never evil. Our parents and our grandparents worried about polio epidemics. Today the great public-health crisis...