Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rwanda, but for the world. We can accept atrocities as inevitable, or we can strive for a higher standard. We can presume to forget what only God and the victims have standing to forgive, or we can heed the most searing lesson of this century which is that evil, when unopposed, will spawn more evil...
...Necessary Evil...
...along and go-along strategy that will build up trust in Beijing. "It's only in that way that they will keep hands off," says a friend and political ally. Lee thinks that will not work with communists. "C.H. is a good man who may be forced to do evil," he says. So Lee intends to keep confronting China in the law courts. In fact, Hong Kong needs them both--and each knows...
...done so often, Garcia Marquez makes the fantastic seem ordinary. At one point Marina Montoya asks her cold-blooded keepers to kneel with her and pray. They do, each to the same God for the same reasons: to protect their lives and deliver them from evil. It is a classic Garcia Marquez instance--comic, tragic and all too human...
...Nichols had chosen a target: the federal building in Oklahoma City. (Nichols, the other person charged in the bombing, will be tried after McVeigh.) McVeigh wanted "to cause a general uprising in America," Fortier said. The government workers "may be individually innocent, but because they were part of the evil empire, they were guilty by association...