Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...killings occurred during the holy month of Ramadan and were directed against innocent people in prayer. it is hard to conceive that one human being is capable of such unthinkable evil...
...subject of the article, so Leland is forced to come back to real life, whose "gray areas" he speaks of with reverence. Yet he spends the rest of the article informing us which side is black and which is white. For this is perfect media fare: the evil that lurks beneath a New England town's "bland reassurance...
...pretence of detachment. He points to Paul Madore's candidacy for the state senate as evidence that "progress can move backward as well as forward," whatever that means. His final sentences ring with self-affirmation, declaring that the forces of right will finally triumph over small-town ignorance and evil: "In towns like Lewiston, history sometimes advances at its own uneven speed. But it advances nonetheless." This is not reporting. It is an exercise in contempt...
...debate on gay rights, like that on any great issue, must be portrayed not as a simple struggle between good and evil, but as a difficult and ongoing process of choice...
...next day I tried to verify our lack of feeling. Who knows, all our emotions have been dried up to such a point that maybe we Sarajevans are really doing the world an injustice, a world that thinks victory over the forces of evil has finally come to pass, a world that believes there is true reason for rejoicing. At Muhammad the barber's, in "the street where the President no longer lives," as the barber likes to advertise, I encountered a strange atmosphere. Totally oblivious, like in the old days, people were talking about a soccer game broadcast from...