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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gore has been sounding positively soulful lately. Yes, that Al Gore. In campaign appearances the former divinity student talks about the struggle between good and evil, and invokes Jesus Christ's parable of the sower to explain how media violence subverts children. In New Hampshire, Gore compared the alienation of Cain--the first murderer--with the forces that drove two teenagers to commit the same sin in Colorado. He mused to a Washington Post columnist that society has finally reached "the end of a 400-year period of allergy to faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking a Leap of Faith | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...cold war's three-card monte. Americans would be at one another's throat for a half-century, sorting out which of the lies was the evil one and which was the harmless. Consider Whittaker Chambers, the aggressive apostate from Lie No. 1: Was he a malignant fabricator? Or was the real deceiver Alger Hiss, who went to his death in 1996 still proclaiming No. 2? Or was it the father of McCarthyism--drunken, reckless Tailgunner Joe, No. 3's bully and birdseed artist, who was the true Antichrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alger, Ales And Joe | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...needs to make sure that the little guys--which in his book include AOL--don't suffer if proprietorial cable services like AT&T's At Home or Time Warner's RoadRunner end up owning the online gateway. "It's a battle," Case said, "between good and evil." The FCC isn't entirely convinced, but it has agreed to look into the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadband On Trial | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...Like sleep, stupidity is a universal, surreal and mysterious phenomenon, a brownout, the mind passing through a tunnel. Sometimes stupidity is hilarious; most of the world's jokes are told by one ethnic group about the stupidity of another ethnic group. In its sinister forms, stupidity turns up as evil's incompetent half brother--evil without supernatural prestige. The "Evil Empire" was, in a more practical sense, the stupid empire; systemic stupidity, not evil or good, brought the Soviet Union down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Stupidity, Stupid | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...Kosovo crisis were a Hollywood film, Slobodan Milosevic would be on the run now, in a vain attempt to save his skin as his evil army disintegrated. Later in the movie he would be dragged before a chamber of bewigged jurists and, as the credits rolled, sentenced to his just deserts. But the real world is unlikely to offer up the denouement of a handcuffed Milosevic unraveling in a war-crimes courtroom ?- at least not any time soon. Even if Milosevic has been given no secret guarantees regarding his status as an indicted war criminal, the odds are slim that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Now For the World's Most Wanted? | 6/4/1999 | See Source »

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