Word: evils
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...nations - has had its appeal overshadowed by the neon-lit, focus-grouped spectacle that surrounds it. St. John anticipates those sentiments. "Sure, this billion dollar game harbors the crass and the commercial," he concedes. "But for a few short hours at least, the truly base and the evil must wait outside the door because we're watching the game. The Super Bowl is possibility, it is opportunity, it is hope, it is dreams." From here the Gatorade doesn't taste quite as sweet...
...Lynn's defenders say it's wrong to paint all lobbyists as evil. He has "precisely the kinds of skills required," says William Cohen, who served as Lynn's boss when Cohen ran the Pentagon during President Clinton's second term. "The fact that he lobbied for a defense contractor should not lead anyone to conclude that he is now rendered incapable of exercising his duties with complete fidelity to Secretary Gates or President Obama...
Asian communities throughout the world will mark the Lunar New Year beginning Jan. 26 with festivities that include plenty of food, firecrackers (to chase away evil spirits), red paper lanterns (red being a bright color that portends a sunny future) and dragon and lion dances for good luck. (In the dances, a group of performers holds up a model of the animal's head and a long train symbolizing its body and moves sinuously as a way to demonstrate power and dignity - no lions or dragons are harmed.) Such traditions are rooted in an astrological system that dates back...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences don't care that you liked The Dark Knight, which is the second biggest dollar-earner in movie history, and which kids and critics alike appreciated less as a live-action comic book than a triangular battle of stern Good, giggling Evil and two faces in between. Except for a Heath Ledger memorial citation (Supporting Actor), the film was shut out of all major award categories, taking seven other doorstop prizes like Sound Editing and Sound Mixing...
...hate and remedying its effects are central goals of “The Laramie Project.” The characters lead the audience to a number of realizations about the world of Laramie. As a play, “The Laramie Project” strives to reveal the evil that resides in America; by owning up to prejudice against homosexuality as a society, it suggests, this evil can hopefully be corrected. Most of the townspeople refuse to accept that Laramie is homophobic—it’s “just not that kind of place...