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These are biblical times. The turning of the second millennium has brought war, rumors of war and all sorts of neo-Jehovian high jinks. Our leaders are plagued by enemies and temptations that have turned out to be divinely revelatory. Bill Clinton--the exemplar of baby-boom licentiousness and moral relativism--was brought low by a thong-flashing Gomorrean hussy; in the subsequent public scourging, his debauchery yielded more profound character flaws: his tendency to lawyer the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sending Out the Smite Squad | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

These are biblical times. The turning of the second millennium has brought war, rumors of war and all sorts of neo-Jehovian high jinks. Our leaders are plagued by enemies and temptations that have turned out to be divinely revelatory. Bill Clinton-the exemplar of baby-boom licentiousness and moral relativism-was brought low by a thong-flashing Gomorrean hussy; in the subsequent public scourging, his debauchery yielded more profound character flaws: his tendency to lawyer the truth, pity himself and blame others. And George W. Bush? This most publicly religious of Presidents has been set upon by a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sending Out the Smite Squad | 3/28/2004 | See Source »

...racial intensity, on the execution platform.... The treatment of prodigious figures in a pageantric time is in the grand, kaleidoscopic manner of Dumas, overcast with the mysticism of Jewry. Imported after a wide success in Europe, the book has not been equaled this season as a foursquare, full-blooded, Jehovian chronicle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Potent Jew | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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