Word: moralize
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There are valid legal concerns over mapping out the Court's jurisdiction and defining the power of its prosecutor and important moral questions about whether or not a universal standard of justice is applicable, or even desirable. These objections, however, should be discussed and debated in Rome; they should not be used to kill the endeavor from Capitol Hill. Some of the most heinous human beings of our time are laughing at the world right now, confident that they will never be punished for their crimes, and it seems as though they may be right...
...beyond Starr's reach, he goes down in history as a lucky survivor. The harder answer is to seize the moment and put it to good use, an effort that assumes voters will continue to separate public from private conduct. Can he return smoothly to the agenda of moral exhortation he laid out for this term--mend race relations, find an AIDS vaccine, fix public schools, demonize tobacco--when the polls that have shown rising support for his policies have also shown falling regard for his character? However cleanly he escapes this episode, it has been stitched onto him, like...
Starr was at home taking out the trash that morning, when he decided to offer a long press conference that revealed as much about his moral outlook as his legal one. There is "no room for white lies" in sworn testimony, even if the case is thrown out, he asserted. "In that civil case, you cannot defile the temple of justice." Starr recalled fondly the Joe Friday character on Dragnet who was interested in "just the facts, ma'am." His rambling sermon was so defensive that White House staff members started paging one another, asking, "Are you watching this...
...Senate. Allende was a Marxist-Leninist, but presumably he believed that democracy was the preferred means for political and social change. Still, under Allende, there were severe violations of human rights, and political dissidents were put in jail simply for speaking the truth. Very few have the moral right to judge the Chilean transition process, and some observers are making inferences that have no basis in fact. For the majority, Pinochet is the past, and people don't really care whether he is the commander in chief or a Senator. He only has a meaning for the extreme right...
...accept queers, we must accept them culturally as well as politically. We must accept them as individuals with the capacity for love and lust. The outspoken nature of "Clit Notes" is in part a protest against people such as Oppenheim who consider lesbians de facto excluded from moral behavior because of the "threat" they pose to America's social cohesion. SIMON J. DEDEO '00 April...