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...this I even foresee a way of saving the world from all global threats to mankind. I do think that no more technical tricks or systemic measures could be created capable of preventing these threats. Certain changes of the human mentality are necessary in order to deepen the feeling of global responsibility. The renewal of global responsibility is not thinkable without a certain respect for a higher principle above my own personal existence...
Indeed, conservatives can barely conceal their glee over Thomas' performance. "The court no longer sees itself as the moral conscience of the nation bent on improving on the state of mankind," says Bruce Fein, a conservative legal scholar, approvingly. On the wall of Thomas' chambers is a Harriett Erlich drawing titled Freedom that shows three black children with outstretched arms. Thomas might ponder its message; his own liberation from the poverty of Pin Point, Ga., and his rise to the court would have been unthinkable without the body of liberal jurisprudence he now casts into doubt...
...exaggerating. I had spent fruitless days trying to get glimpses of chimps and gorillas in forests just to the north of the Ndoki, and it was hard for me to imagine that Africa might still contain forests so remote that the animals had never learned to fear mankind. Western lowland gorillas, hunted for centuries, are among the shyest, least-known animals on earth, and scientists in Gabon and the Central African Republic have invested years trying to gain trust so they could study the animals at close quarters...
...singer from hell, steals the show. Much of the movie is narrated from his nihilistic point of view. Motivated by intense sibling rivalry and a deep love for European dictators, Brock collaborates with the terrorists. What's more, his music seems to be motivated by a dislike of all mankind. "Why do we feed the broads" highlights his set of wonderfully vicious folk tunes...
...stricter enforcement of antidrug laws, from the opposition Social Democrats, who appear inclined to support drug-legalization proposals that would make Germany more like the Netherlands, where 2,000 coffeehouses openly sell marijuana and hashish. Ruled Neskovic: "Intoxication, like eating, drinking and sex, is one of the fundamentals of mankind." The judge himself confessed to preferring seltzer water to cannabis...