Word: moralizer
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...very surprising. We've been a little bit asleep for 20 or 30 years and we're waking up to the fact that we're not eating food that's really good for us and we're not taking care of the land and the farmers. There's a moral imperative because most children eat at school and the food that they're eating is making them sick. We are willing to put billions and trillions of dollars into things right now and if there's a place of need, it's in the public schools...
...National Wound Senator Patrick Leahy's advocacy for a truth commission, charged with uncovering facts about alleged torture and civil-liberties abuses by the Bush Administration, is warranted [March 2]. Despite all that is right about our country, it is painfully clear that we tend to set aside the moral and ethical breaches in our history. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up in South Africa in the aftermath of apartheid was designed to encourage a national catharsis of a shameful past. Most agree that the effort was worthwhile. Some would say there can be no forgiveness without repentance...
...idea beloved by screenwriters: the perfect crime. But in Hollywood movies, even the cleverest plot is usually derailed by an unforeseen hitch. Now a real-life heist in Germany seems to have flouted that rule along with its moral subtext that crime doesn't pay. In January, $6.8 million worth of jewelry was snatched from the cases of Kaufhaus des Westens, a luxurious seven-story department store universally known as KaDeWe and as much a Berlin landmark as the Victory Column and the Brandenburg Gate. Three masked, gloved thieves were caught on surveillance cameras sliding down ropes from the store...
...raise their child alone. The child is probably ugly. So years later, after “Tha Carter” tops the charts and Lil’ Wayne sweeps the Grammy’s, she shows up at one of his shows only to get pushed away. The moral of the story is not to say no to Lil’ Wayne lest you end up poor and lonely. —Mark A. Fusunyan
...Benedict's comments on Tuesday are the clearest sign that little if anything will change, as the Pope continues his quest to challenge secular trends both inside and outside his church by adhering to - and openly pronouncing - rigid stands on sexual and moral matters. (See pictures of the Pope...