Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hard not to be chastened by the fitful hubris of President Bush’s administration and its transgressions: spurning international cooperation and counsel in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, framing intricate international affairs in the unhelpful language of a moral binary—with “freedom” as its watchword—and sanctioning torture on the sly while resisting all criticism. The ongoing effort in Iraq might be a comedy of errors, were it not for its tragic consequences in death tolls and the destabilizing reverberations throughout the region...
...fasters have already dramatized on an international scale the indifference of the Harvard Corporation to repeated demands by faculty and students for divestment from companies operating in South Africa. Corporation members Hugh Calkins ‘49 statement that Harvard’s investment decisions are divorced from moral considerations: President Bok’s conflicting remark that the Corporation had already “decided what is right” by not divesting and Treasurer George Putnam ‘49’s laughter upon hearing of the last have all been publicized, thereby calling attention...
...decision to criticize "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" has drawn praise from students and alumni who believe raising the issue Tuesday is a moral imperative...
...Hillary Clinton team prefers-for a few more days, at least-to do the math differently. With her win in Puerto Rico and a net gain of 24 delegates over the weekend in party rules meetings, Clinton is on the verge of eeking out a tiny moral victory: unless a torrent of superdelegates emerges in the next 48 hours, she will have deprived Obama from clinching the nomination before the official end of the primary season...
Obama's campaign is claiming "the moral high ground on this issue," and has been actively calling on his supporters not to protest the meeting "for the sake of party unity," Plouffe said. Then again, this may have less to do with principle than cold, hard political math: after all, one generally doesn't protest something that one expects to win. And that should give a pretty good hint of the likely outcome on Saturday...