Word: evilness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...myself. That’s why, approximately two weeks ago, when everyone and their mother started to wear leggings, I started to get panic attacks. I couldn’t believe that people were subjecting themselves to this particular brand of torture once again. It seemed so anachronistic and evil for the fashion designers to resurrect them. Were they in a coalition to incite anxiety in their favorite daughter—yours truly? I ended up reasoning with myself, of course. “Fashion designers can never really be ‘wrong,’ in the traditional...
...done with affection, the nicknamer is saying that their choice for your name is better than the one you already have. Of course, it gets complicated because in most cases the name you already have wasn’t your choice either. Further, so many people use nicknaming for evil, and not for good, the ultimate form of playground teasing, it’s easy to see why the nicknamed might get disgruntled.But if a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, why do we care? Apparently our identities lie inside, not by the name itself...
There is, however, another kind of divestment demand to which Harvard does sometimes respond: demands that trace the funding of evil back to Harvard’s endowment money. The call for Sudanese divestment was such a case, as were Harvard’s divestment decisions regarding tobacco companies, Gulf oil, and apartheid in South Africa...
...profound than both general gravitas and the other common argument for divestment, the infliction of financial pain on evildoers. In the second category of divestment campaigns, the demand is that Harvard terminate a direct money flow between the endowment and the finances of injustice, because even just remotely funding evil is morally intolerable...
...Qaeda claims to be faithful to Islam and God, but they are not,” the ambassador said. “They are an evil cult. Their twisted vision is alien to the healthy body of the faith that holds the Muslim community together...