Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years is a long time between sequels, but this is a hardy franchise. Mel Gibson goes crazy; Danny Glover fumes. What's new? Well, Chris Rock is along to goose the youth market; Hong Kong's Jet Li kicks some Occidental butt and helps sell the film to Asia. Moral: good business is more important than than great moviemaking...
Carter appointed himself to a new historical position--which he made up as he went along--as America's anti-President: a psalm-singing global circuit rider and moral interventionist who behaved, in a surreal and often effective way, as if the election of 1980 had been only some kind of ghastly mistake, a technicality of democratic punctilio. And so, for nearly 20 years, Anti-President Carter has circled the world embodying hyperactive paradox: insufferable self-absorption and self-righteousness in the service of admirably selfless causes...
...hundred energetic ways--in his labor as a carpenter for Habitat for Humanity, for example, and in his less publicized crusades against the devastating diseases of guinea worm and river blindness in the Third World. Operating out of the Carter Center in Atlanta, he has used his commanding moral authority to mediate disputes and monitor elections and coax transitions to democracy in Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, Zambia, the Dominican Republic, Bosnia and other countries...
...Aamir Abdul Rehman correctly concludes that framing the Israeli-Palestinian struggle in nationalist terms will produce no results. Both the assumptions and goals of any two nationalist philosophies inherently contradict each other; hence any discussion of international relations must be framed in an internationally accepted framework, possibly a moral...
While I am more than willing to discuss the Middle East peace process in moral terms, no intelligent observer would choose the morality of a state that violated the human rights of its own citizens. It is this morality that justifies the murder of civilian Israelis, an act which anyone who believes in the sanctity of human life must condemn. HAROLD E. LUBER...