Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violation of federal law," Republican Whip Tom DeLay wrote in a memo to Reno. "I urge you to pursue this matter with vigilance and due haste." The Justice Department has said it would look into the matter. Department lawyers noted that, in general, federal law requires proof of intent to intercept and disseminate overheard conversations, but said that requirement might be satisfied by the call's tape recording and the subsequent relay of the transcript to the Times...
Alas, the city council of Cambridge--the only city government that has refused to license the U.S. Shuttle--also seems intent on becoming the only to actively remove it from its community. We urge the council not to think merely of one constituency but of the community as a whole...
...from a more chilling perspective--a tactic of war. Maybe it's more fun for the perpetrators than, say, lobbing artillery shells at some remote and impersonal target. But this doesn't mean rape can be seen as just another lighthearted form of R. and R. because the intent is still to defeat the other side. As the Bosnian Serbs understood so well, the best way to get the enemy steamed was to put their wives to work as latter-day comfort women...
...lesson of Aberdeen is that the U.S. military may well be, to use the classic military terminology, fubar, or screwed up beyond all recognition. Some forms of abuse--like sexual harassment--have been defined by the law as criminal. But the soldier who turns on his comrades with savage intent commits a far graver category of crime. Whether he shoots them in the back or assaults their bodies with his own, he's confusing his fellow soldiers with the foe--and the word for this is treason. When a woman can't trust her drill sergeant, neither can the nation...
Rest assured that I did not take this dialogue at face value. Glazed Pork Loin's intent was clearly to criticize the Crimson Key Society's own unusual brand of humor, but surely there were other ways to make the point more effectively. Yet he chose to disregard the sensitivities of Demon's readers for the sake of making a trivial point. There is a real danger that readers flipping through the latest issue of Demon who do not have the time to ponder the subtleties of the authors' convoluted sarcasm would have taken away little more than...