Word: evil
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...book deals and that they have allowed their lobbyists to stand on the edge of the House floor, writing the very text of the bills to be voted upon. The Watergate comparison is inevitable. But while I consider the actions of the paranoid and plotting Richard Nixon to be evil, I think of Clinton's alleged actions as just plain stupid. He seems to have allowed his large personal flaw to get in the way of his job. Nixon condoned his flunkies' breaking into the office of the Democratic National Committee. And that was just for starters...
...spite of the warning of good taste. They forget that they pretend to be gentlemen, hence unpleasant contests. Hard words, we believe, should be reserved for those cases where men willfully persist in wrong action. Such cases, it is needless to say, rarely occur in college. It is an evil of the same kind, though not of the same degree, to try to convince by epithets, as to have recourse to bowie-knife and revolver when the pen has failed...
...entire argument over defense strategy begs the question of what might actually work in this case. One long shot is the "necessity" defense. "It means you are at times in the law entitled to commit a lesser evil to avoid a greater evil," says Stanford law professor George Fisher: in other words, the alleged Unabomber felt he was forced to bomb America in order to save it. But the chances of being allowed to make such a claim are slim. Says Fisher: "Obviously the necessity defense is never going to be allowed to be used as an excuse for terrorism...
...great people, and I hope that the estrangements can be bridged." According to the Washington Post, Clinton followed up later through Swiss intermediaries with a letter to the Iranian government proposing direct talks. Khatami chose to reply on television, which may be safer for him than dallying secretly with evil Washington...
...rank as one of this market's costliest flops ever. It caps a miserable year for its studio, Warner Bros., which, according to Variety, dropped from second to fourth in market share and, thanks to other underachievers like Mad City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, averaged the lowest gross per film of the six major studios. The trade and business press have slammed longtime co-chairmen BOB DALY and TERRY SEMEL for relying too much on old formulas and older stars. The pair have been stretched thin since they added responsibility for Time Warner's music...