Word: moralizers
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...support their project of "Christianizing" the U.S. The idea that Evangelicals want to turn America into a Christian government is both alarmist and mistaken. For one thing, there is no Evangelical legal system like Islamic sharia. Evangelicals have an agenda, but it is largely the restoration of moral and ethical standards that have typified the U.S. since its inception but have been neglected in the last half century. You may disagree with this agenda, but it is not theocratic...
...keeps fighting, of course (he has 24 episodes to fill), but for people, not politics. 24's ideology--Jack Bauerism, if you will--is not so much in between left and right as it is outside them, impatient with both A.C.L.U. niceties and Bushian moral absolutes. This season, Bauer allies with Hamri al-Assad, a (putatively) reformed terrorist leader, to stop an attack. He thus displays a better grasp of realpolitik than has the Bush Administration, which resisted the Iraq Study Group's recommendation to work with Iran and Syria. A fellow agent asks Bauer if it matters that...
...payment in lieu of taxes program (PILOT) of 2005, in which Harvard significantly increased its payments to Cambridge for the tax-exempt land it owns. Harvard’s neighborhood respectability is as important as its global prestige and its wealth and reputation oblige it to set just and moral standards...
...Shaw’s heroes are men of moral passion.” (English...
...fairness to HMC, Harvard’s questionable investments do not necessarily signify a moral lapse. The HMC maintains no direct control over the Barclay’s holdings, which, like those of any mutual fund, change over time in response to market fluctuations. However, the University’s financial gurus cannot ignore what is in plain sight. Now that it is clear to Harvard and the world that a sizable portion of Harvard’s endowment is supporting the actions of Sinopec and PetroChina, the HMC should find a way to dispose of the shares...