Word: moralizers
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...says. "It assures them, in the midst of a general cultural breakdown and a time of growing danger, that God is going to redeem the time." Evangelicals who had felt somehow left behind in secular terms, by a coarse culture and a fear of general moral decay, welcome arguments that even the most tragic events may be evidence of God's larger plan. In fact, you don't have to be religious to be hoping for that as well...
...Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "I don't think it's our business to get at the heart and soul and metaphysics of people as to why they come to support Israel. Some do it for a national-interest point of view, some because of moral issues, some because of theological issues. We don't set standards or conditions for support." That may be a luxury for a more peaceful...
...canonization of John Gotti is truly unfortunate, particularly at a time when Americans, and especially New Yorkers, have been forced to regain a sense of moral clarity about the world in which they live. The much-maligned concept of “good and evil” returned in full force after Sept. 11, we are repeatedly told; but differentiating between good and evil requires us to recognize even subtle, craftily-disguised forms of evil. The bottom line is this: John Gotti was a vicious thug who either murdered or ordered the murders of many, many people, including...
...arresting Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Israel may have given him the inside track in the race to succeed Yasser Arafat, argues Haaretz's Danny Rubinstein. Imprisoning Barghouti will only increase his moral authority over Palestinian militants, Rubeinstein says, and that will likely make his endorsement necessary for the success of any long-term peace agreement - once the 73-year-old Arafat has passed from the scene, the imprisoned Barghouti's importance in Palestinian politics could become the equivalent of that of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela in South Africa...
...hopping on the skyscraper highway, dragging his favorite precog (spooky Samantha Morton) through a mall, eluding his nemesis Witwer (inevitable star-to-be Colin Farrell) in a car factory, where a vehicle is assembled with our hero inside. But Spielberg is also keen to distinguish movie spectacle from moral dilemmas. Faced with irresistible impulse, he says, we can choose to resist it. Try to think of the last film in which the hero has the chance to kill a man he believes abducted and murdered his child and then, with an exertion of iron will, says...