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...world. Such a policy is not just indulgent; it risks sacrificing any chance of influencing postconflict arrangements. Second, and perhaps most important of all, Blair has been motivated since he was a student by a deeply held set of moral - indeed religious - beliefs that good should triumph over evil and that the forces of righteousness have an obligation to do what they can to improve the world. That was just as evident in the Kosovo crisis of 1999, when Blair took the lead in advocating military action. In this respect he is very peculiar among today's Europeans, most...
...psychologist wondered, naturally, whether De Kock deserved forgiveness. He seemed genuinely remorseful. His work with the death squads had a sort of antiterrorist rationale at the time. But so what? Evil always has an explanation. There is no bromide as fatuous as the thought that to understand everything is to forgive everything. Gobodo-Madikizela knows that forgiveness is less a matter of understanding than of a more profound motion of the heart--a transcendence. The importance is not so much that it absolves the one forgiven as that it cleanses the one who forgives...
...rudimentary transaction of remorse-apology-forgiveness is just the beginning of Gobodo-Madikizela's struggle with the meaning of evil and of De Kock. The black psychologist was so moved by the white man's pain that at one point she reached out and touched his shaking hand. The gesture startled them both. Around such moments, Gobodo-Madikizela has composed a beautiful moral document that is without a whisper of easy grace. --By Lance Morrow
...China's police claim to solve 85% of the country's regular murder cases. But they're way behind when it comes to serial killings, a seemingly universal form of evil that flourishes most in societies under stress. The inexperience of Chinese investigators in this field was vividly exposed by a gang of four murderers in the central province of Henan who evaded capture for months in 2000. Their modus operandi was to break into homes using battering rams. Once inside, they killed the inhabitants, frequently castrating male victims with cleavers. They left behind calling cards: cloth masks with...
...Today, the serene yet slightly mad-looking stupa (it's meant to be viewed from the sky) is beset by a very modern evil: rapacious commercialism. The grounds around its entrance are a labyrinth of souvenir stands and caf?s where vendors have greatly outnumbered visitors since the bombings in Bali. Tourists in Borobudur are subjected to a grueling gauntlet of hawkers selling the usual range of junky stuff imprinted or embroidered with the name of the place. The asongan, as the vendors are known, are aggressive, sometimes to the edge of frenzy...