Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...July 22 the Chinese government announced that Falun Gong was banned--for practicing "evil thinking" and threatening social stability. All over China police began rounding up thousands of Falun Gong practitioners and driving them off to sports stadiums. There they were interrogated, sometimes for hours, and forced to sign letters disavowing the group. In scenes reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution, more than 2 million books and instructional tapes were pulped or crushed by steam rollers last week. And there was also the astonishing news that some of the arrested Falun Gong members were top Communist Party officials. On Thursday, Beijing...
...most romantic figure, a hero endowed with a legend when he was three years old, for which there was no precedent in our history, a hero sprung up from tragedy, the son of the murdered President bearing his name whose life was meant in our minds to redeem that evil day in Dallas. I doubt that there were many Americans who didn't want the best for John F. Kennedy Jr. And when his plane was reported missing on Saturday morning, although there was no precedent, no justification, for television to maintain the vigil that it did, there...
...weeks. But I've been involved with some of those women for years!"). To win fabulous prizes, a woman mocks her lover's after-sex ritual--"a ham sandwich and ESPN"--in front of a studio audience. A girl loses her virginity to her boyfriend--who turns into an evil vampire. Sex on TV is still plentiful. A study this year by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found that 56% of 1,351 sampled shows, and two-thirds of prime-time ones, had sexual content. But when TV turns a critical eye on the subject, it's often anything...
Family history also drives Kennedy, who has the civil rights spirit of his father. "To me," he says, "this is a struggle of good and evil--between short-term greed and ignorance and a long-term vision of building communities that are dignified and enriching and that meet the obligations to future generations. There are two visions of America. One is that this is just a place where you make a pile for yourself and keep moving. And the other is that you put down roots and build communities that are examples to the rest of humanity...
...flying Hippogriffs and terrifying Dementors, prison guards who suck the happiness out of people; they take classes in Divination and discover new powers. But as Rowling, with her trademark humor and tight plotting, continues to mine her true themes of betrayal and loyalty, love and loss, the forces of evil are also encroaching. "Life is becoming a bit more fraught with anxiety generally," Rowling says. "And in book four, Harry gets introduced to his hormones." All of which will help Harry and his fans grow up together...