Word: malignance
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...half ploy, crafted to out Kelly without leaving fingerprints. Hutton was right that some officials around Blair legitimately worried they had to get Kelly's name out or be accused of misleading parliamentary investigations into the WMD dossier. But he couldn't bring himself to acknowledge that decent and malign motives could both have shaped the naming strategy. Hutton also bent over backwards to downplay evidence that Blair aides had influenced John Scarlett, head of the Joint Intelligence Committee, to change the dossier to boost its public impact - as Gilligan in part had claimed. Jonathan Powell, Blair's chief...
...MATRIX TRILOGY. The movies' premise that the world we know is neither good nor real but the creation of a malign power echoes early texts that are now known as Gnostic. Similar themes mark the work of science-fiction patriarch Philip K. Dick, whose stories have been turned into movies like Blade Runner, Minority Report and John Woo's Paycheck, opening on Christmas...
Even if services were fully adequate, however, many students in need of care fail to seek help and suffer in silence, often with severely negative consequences. Why is this? Sometimes it is the malign effects of the illness itself. A person who is depressed may feel too hopeless to seek treatment or might feel so worthless as not to merit help. But more often the failure to get help reflects the continuing stigmatization of mental illness—even in a sophisticated community like ours. A person suffering with depression might feel inappropriate shame at not being able to control...
...father, a distinguished filmmaker. But one streak in him runs deeper than despair: the need to dramatize the social process that shapes boys into men. In virtually all his films--from his 1984 Yellow Earth to his new Together--a child falls under a teacher's benign or malign spell. Chen is thus replaying the privileges and nightmares of his youth and repaying a deeper debt to his father...
...That leaves the option of a policy of malign neglect, in which the U.S. blocks North Korea's rehabilitation and simply allows the regime's own decrepitude to bring it down. That carries the same long-term fear of chaos for North Korea's neighbors, but more important, it may also make the regime's nuclearization irreversible. Two days of talks in Beijing have confirmed that, if anything, the Korean peninsula may have become even more dangerous in the wake of Iraq...