Word: evil
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Construction for the new Humanities Center is an unavoidable reality which may make the relocation a necessary evil. But we believe that some attempt should have been made to minimize the number of people to be inconvenienced. The move of Expository Writing will affect 800 students per semester, more students than are contained in any single concentration. Given the sheer number of people to be affected, one would wonder why Harvard did not try harder to reorganize existing space to provide for a more convenient location...
...Every candidate I have come up with is hardly the most worthy person," Kovach said. "Unfortunately, a lot of them are evil figures who have done great damage to the world, people like Hitler, but their accomplishments are so negative I don't think they are worthy of consideration...
After the spectacular failure of Margaret Thatcher's poll tax in the United Kingdom, you wouldn't think that anyone would seriously discuss its equally evil twin, the flat tax, in this country. After all, we split with that now-defunct empire because we knew how to do all the taxation and representation stuff much better. But the flat tax, most recently championed by Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes, has returned to the spotlight...
...UNTIL NOW, THE TARGETS OF BILL (THE BOOK OF Virtues) Bennett's crusades have at least been plausible sources of evil. But the latest victim of his wrath--TV talk shows of the Sally Jessy Raphael variety--are in a whole different category from drugs and gangsta rap. As anyone who actually watches them knows, the talk shows are one of the most excruciatingly moralistic forums the culture has to offer. Disturbing and sometimes disgusting, yes, but their very business is to preach the middle-class virtues of responsibility, reason and self-control...
...Supervillain: He may, as usual, have a superweapon trained on a Western capital, but Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), a freelance mastermind operating in today's chaotic Russia, has a dreary back story explaining how he went wrong instead of truly evil elan. Big mistake: we don't want motivation in a Bond nemesis; we want psychosis on a joyous, cosmic scale. Gert Frobe, you are missed...