Word: evils
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Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel calls Bernie Madoff evil, and who better to judge? Both Wiesel and his foundation were wiped out, along with thousands of other investors in Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Families were ruined; victims have killed themselves; charities have had to shut down. So, what punishment could fit such crimes, and what are the odds that anyone will come away feeling that justice was done...
...villains in this saga are not sorry. Almost 70 years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote that "the greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil Dickens loved to paint but ... in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices." Never before has the truth of his words been so apparent. Vicky Brago-Mitchell, LOS ANGELES...
...level. An hour-long saga of compelling fury that demands to be listened to in its entirety, it follows the story of a young woman named Margaret as she falls in love with a shapeshifting faun named William whom she meets in the forest. In four acts, an evil queen and a villainous rake try to destroy the couple, but these hazards only succeed in ending their lives, not their love. Beginning with a slow organ crescendo that leads into Meloy’s somber introduction in the first variation of a recurring “Hazards of Love?...
...hornbill cap adorned with a mirror and a majestic eagle feather. One night, three silent Nishi fishermen carrying torches pass our camp. We watch their silhouettes flicker and vanish into the steep night forest. They had lit torches to find their way, and to scare off tigers and evil spirits. I shiver, glad that we're on the river, and just passing through...
...honor given to Henry VIII before he broke with the Catholic Church and established the Church of England.) That touch of holiness once gave the occupant of the throne the supposed ability to cure certain diseases - most famously, scrofula, a terrible skin ailment that was called "the king's evil." Thus, the miraculous contact had to be conserved. And so, whether a touch or a nod or a gaze, royal favor, like that of God, is not a subject's on demand; it is dispensed by kingly prerogative. (See pictures from the 2006 celebration of the Queen's birthday...