Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...award for the most bizarre response to the search for "noir" has to belong to "The Penmaster's Place." The eponymous Penmaster, who appears at the top of the page in his "human disguise," claims to be the self-appointed commander of a master-race of evil penguins who are in a constant guerrilla struggle to take over the universe. At first glance, this seems to be an elaborate front for a psychotic Pittsburgh Penguins fan, but in fact there are far more devious forces at work here. The Penmaster heralds the imminent reign of penguins, which he insists...
...credo celebrates the "Blanc et Noir" of the penguin; for the Penmaster, the coloring of this seabird potently symbolizes the noir struggle between good and evil. However, as interesting a symbolic figure as the penguin is, the Penmaster pushes the idea quite a bit further than a simple intellectual statement. He presents an annotated list of the "most evil penguins" on the planet; a "Penguin Update" for up-to-the- minute information on the penguin revolution; and a link to a "corporation" called "Penco," which offers "the best in penguin care products and penguin accessories." This company even...
...students had turned their eyes to the hill, they would have seen the source of the evil. With apparent deliberation, the shooters were aiming high at their targets, at points where bodies are most fragile. The victims were apparently "selected because of their sex or who they were. It was not a random shooting, where you just shoot out there," Doug Golden told ABC's PrimeTime Live. "If that had been true, you would have shot as many boys as you did girls." (A music class of all girls did, however, file out first.) Of the 15 wounded, only...
...local minister has mentioned Satan, but explanations rarely come neatly packaged in one word. "These are cold-blooded, evil children, and I don't care how bad that sounds," says Golden neighbor Brooks, whose daughter Jenna was wounded in the attack. Still, deep in its soul, Jonesboro is Bible country, and the residents choose to see divine providence in all things. Of the potentially fatal bullet that hit her daughter Candace but was deflected by a rib, Kim Porter says, "God held her the right way." Jonesboro has always counted its blessings. Here folks aim to forgive, as improbable...
...world to curb commerce in these devices. Amnesty says electric-shock torture or the abuse of prisoners with shock devices has occurred in at least 50 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. "Torturers seem to be discovering that electroshock stun weapons are ideal for their evil purposes--cheap, easy to conceal and hard to trace," says Brian Wood, who tracks the weapons internationally for Amnesty. TIME's own investigation found few international controls over the devices, along with disturbing evidence that stun guns from the U.S., Asia and Europe wind up in countries whose governments practice...