Word: evil
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Tadros' analogy to the tragedy in Bosnia is even more offensive because it is nothing more than a cheap and easy trick. The trick works something like this: find some notorious evil people and compare your opponent to them. By referring to an ongoing tragedy that has been in the news, Tadros tries to fool us into associating the horrible images we've seen of Bosnia, with the Arab-Israeli conflict. This is a clever move because it forces the "pro-Israel side" to have to explain how and why the Israelis aren't rapists and murderers. This is essentially...
...sight of dead children opens an abyss in the mind, of course. The wound may heal better if we not only sift through rubble and the mystery of evil, but also look out at the horizon. A helpful exercise is to study Oklahoma City and the 1990s through the prism of a new book called Walt Whitman's America (Knopf). Here, David S. Reynolds, professor of American Literature and American Studies at New York City's Baruch College, splendidly examines the culture that formed the greatest American poet and the greatest American poem, Leaves of Grass, which was first published...
...does not know until it is too late. And neither do we. Like him, we are disarmed by the sweetness of this life, so richly detailed by Mikhalkov. The genius of his film lies in his refusal to foreshadow, for it makes the outcome more chilling. This is how evil often comes to us, masked in geniality, on a day when the sun is shining, the music playing. And the way Sergei clings to his ordinariness even as he's carried off, trying to preserve it for his family to the end, is unbearably poignant...
...make these judgments about Specter's speaking ability (or lack there of) with no reference to my political disagreements with him. Although I find President Clinton and Vice-President Gore '69 to be quite evil, I will readily grant that they are well-spoken and sharp--just like Satan in Paradise Lost. It is with no small pleasure that I report that the same compliments cannot be paid to Senator Specter...
...winning elections. Use words like "liar'' and "traitor'' to attack Democrats, he said. Should anyone who values honest debate condone such advice? Is it much wonder that the unhinged can't make the distinction between mere name calling and damning opponents as the embodiment of evil...