Word: moralisms
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...civilized world by religious radicals of all stripes is their inability to doubt or question dogma that is clearly immoral in today's world. It is past time for prominent leaders from all the world's major religions to express a genuine commitment to finding a common moral ground that will allow all peoples to choose the faith that best fits their needs...
...Administration's drive to implant democracy in the Middle East to the policies devised by Marshall's generation to combat communism in Europe after World War II. She delivers major speeches on university campuses, rather than in ministerial chancelleries, and seeks out audiences receptive to her declarations of moral purpose. "Our greatest achievements are yet to come," she told French students in Paris. "We must provide greater prosperity to people all over the world," she said in Tokyo. "We are supporting the democratic aspirations of all people," she announced at the American University in Cairo...
...power years," "my time," "refirement," "the bonus years"--anything but the R word. Through informal gatherings over coffee at Starbucks or $1,000 life-planning courses with speakers, homework and skills assessments, these initiatives provide help for retirees and preretirees who have nowhere else to go for information, moral support and camaraderie during one of life's trickier transitions...
...moral design of nature is as bungled as its engineering design. What twisted sadist would have invented a parasite that blinds millions of people or a gene that covers babies with excruciating blisters? To adapt a Yiddish expression about God: If an intelligent designer lived on Earth, people would break his windows...
...background in philosophy with helping him survive the ordeal. In a Feb. 19, 1979, profile of Stockdale, when he was president of the U.S. Naval War College and a philosophy teacher there, we described Stockdale's commitment to teaching his military students how to combat "the deadening of moral sensitivities...