Word: evils
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wanting a big house on a big plot of land 100 miles from a city really so evil? There's nothing evil about wanting a big house. I think we all harbor that kind of instinct. But it's a desire that will be indulged by fewer of us in the future. The deterioration of the exurbs will be a gradual process - one that takes decades - but it will happen. Housing values in these places will decline and it will certainly affect people. But it won't be any different than, say, the kinds of erasures of equity...
...walls of the compound, which sprawls over a city block, are filled with murals and slogans depicting the evil of America and its allies, particularly Israel. One illustration replaces the Statue of Liberty's face with a satanic skull. Another down the block shows a black hand wearing the flags of the U.S. and Israel as wristbands and clutching a globe in its talons; the inscription, from the Islamic republic's founder, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, reads, "The United States is regarded as the most hated government in the world." The former Supreme Leader declares in other panels that...
...Jong Il regime has never been shy of owning up to its mischief: if anything, it tends to exaggerate its ability to do far-flung damage. And yet, there has been no chest-thumping from Pyongyang about the "glorious destruction of the powerful computer systems of the evil enemies of our Dear Leader...
...Alaska GOP). Palin was perceived as a whistle-blower, willing to call out her own party. Less than two years later, Palin won Murkowski's job. "She was going to stand up to the corrupt administration, she was going to expose wrongdoing, she was going to slay the evil dragon," says Larry Persily, a former Palin aide who now works for a Republican state legislator. "She knows how to position herself. She knows how to appeal to the public, and that was a great move...
...power amid widespread poverty. Enter K-20, the Fiend (kaijin) with 20 Faces, who can assume almost any identity, and who steals from the rich but also oppresses the poor. Only one man (pan-Asian star Takeshi Kaneshiro) can stop K-20 - if he can just figure out what evil genius is behind that ever-changing mask. A buoyant pace, meticulous design and a robust parkour fight on a skyscraper roof mark this superior effort from Sato, one of Japan's rare female directors of big-budget action films...