Word: evilness
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...plays into the sick myth of the brilliant serial killer. The evil genius with a sadistic streak, who plays mind games with his victims and the police, has replaced the criminal mastermind of old dime novels. Instead of tying the heroine to the railroad tracks (these days, the train would never arrive), he straps them into Rube Goldberg contraptions that slowly rip their fingernails off and tear their dignity to shreds. We live in a cruel world, but this is one area of criminality where fiction has long outstripped fact. According to the folks at Wikipedia - and those obsessive list...
...fell short of reminding readers that the same demons haunt Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas - they arise from the evil in human nature. And Kenya is not Africa's sole "island of stability." You have only to look at my home country, Ghana. Africa has been marginalized in the media except when it comes to bloodshed. Unfortunately, you affect Africa's efforts at development as much by what you choose not to report. William K. Agadzi, Worcester, Massachusetts...
...fell short of reminding readers that the same demons haunt Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas?they arise from the evil in human nature. And by the way, Kenya is not Africa's sole "island of stability." You have only to look at my home country, Ghana. Africa has been marginalized in the American media except when it comes to bloodshed. Unfortunately, you affect Africa's efforts toward development as much by what you choose not to report. William K. Agadzi, WORCESTER, MASS...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...
That's how Saddam Hussein's flag came to be on my wall. It may bear the dictator's evil imprint, but it reminds me of a brief moment when Iraqis were able to put Saddam behind them and look forward to a better life...