Word: evil
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Which, in and of itself, brings up an important discovery: something about the World Series tends to make us take sides, when possible turning it into a Good vs. Evil battle of demonic proportions. Even though I could never lay an honest claim to the heartbreak that IS "Red Sox Nation," watching Schiraldi, Stanley, Buckner et al. screw it all up hurt just the same...
...murders of Dr. John Britton and James Barrett were justifiable -- calling no witnesses, cross-examining no one and supplying burning rhetoric in lieu of evidence. His closing statement today: "This government is unjust because it does not protect innocent life. To the extent we take part in this evil, we must answer to God. May God help us all." The first person convicted under the access law, which forbids injuring or otherwise interfering with people entering abortion clinics, the 40-year-old Hill faces a possible life term. But first he'll stand trial in state court...
...evanescent, conjured reality (Cedras evil ... er, that is, I mean, Cedras good) must be present and true -- at the time. The salesman or the politician requires persuasive hallucinations to earn a living.But those who, * like me, voted for Clinton and have wished him well believe now that his multilayered, many dimensioned reality, too slick by half, lacks a moral core...
...case, many of the evils of the planet (General Cedras and the atrocities of Haitian politics, for example, or the slaughters in Rwanda) undeniably arise from a brutal, uncivilized, masculine side of human character. It may be advisable -- and constitutionally imperative -- for American Presidents to keep American soldiers out of such satanic messes. Clinton has been neither aggressive nor effective in facing the tragedies of Bosnia and Somalia, which may be part of the reason he felt tempted by the apparently more manageable case of Haiti. But if a President asks American soldiers to go in, what is needed...
Clinton's Diplomacy: The failure to confront evil...