Word: evil
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...duty of sorts to highlight the failings of an institution which can all-too-easily denigrate the very ideals it presumes to uphold. I'm reminded of the famous Edmund Burke quotation which adorns Harvard's favorite ultraconservative publication: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Well, I won't pretend that such hyperbolic rhetoric can be applied seriously to Harvard or that an editorial constitutes much more than "nothing." Nonetheless, the sentiment has always seemed to ring true. So please bear with me for a few moments...
Understanding is not tantamount to condoning. The bombing was an evil act, a sinister act, a cowardly act. But if anything productive at all is to come out of the the events of April 19, it will only be through a substantive consideration of why the bombing happened in the first place...
...There was a complete cross-generational lack of understanding between Pusey and us," Frank says. "He literally thought that evil was in us--he was a very religious man--and we just couldn't figure...
...have much to fear from people who use their religious organizational machine as a club to beat the U.S. government into submission. Spiritual values and beliefs have no place in the affairs of the Republic. Attempts to legislate religion-based issues have perpetrated more evil than anything else in the history of humankind. The progress of civilization requires as a minimum the separation of church and state. ANNABELLE REEVE Oakland, California...
...concepts for sequels pre-empted by Under Siege (Die Hard on a destroyer) and Speed (Die Hard on a bus), director John McTiernan and writer Jonathan Hensleigh turned the tables and appropriated a device sure to be used in this summer's Batman Forever. Like the Riddler, Vengeance's evil genius (Jeremy Irons) taunts the hero with word games, history quizzes and math problems -- riddles, see? This keeps the plot clock ticking as McClane and a good-hearted black racist (Samuel L. Jackson) dash around Manhattan at Irons' bidding...