Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last the moral, political and philosophical imperatives came crashing down on their House. Gingrich spent the rest of the day talking with various factions within his ranks, and at 7 p.m. Thursday he summoned them to the Cannon building to offer his proposal. Dole had, in essence, taken 10 steps so the others could take five. It was the sort of leadership that earned him, in another venue, a chestful of medals and a withered right arm. Some freshmen could not believe their own House leader was deserting the cause. "There is not a need to cave," said an incredulous...
...going to be an apocalyptic effect." Norval Morris, professor of law and criminology at the University of Chicago, finds DiIulio's notion of superpredators too simplistic: "The human animal in young males is quite a violent animal all over the world. The people who put forth the theory of moral poverty lack a sense of history and comparative criminology...
...more, interested in spending money to help break the cycle of poverty and crime. All of which has led John J. DiIulio Jr., a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton, to warn about a new generation of "superpredators," youngsters who are coming of age in actual and "moral poverty,'' without "the benefit of parents, teachers, coaches and clergy to teach them right or wrong and show them unconditional love...
...very disappointed that he would assume there would be a time when the Confederacy would no longer be controversial or that the genocide of a particular group of people could be seen as relative," she says. "I was disappointed in him not questioning it on a moral ground...
...Harvard alumni, or students at Harvard today, will regard it as something of an insult to memorialize those fought against the U.S. and for a society based on slavery and I can sympathize with [them]," he argues. "Often times saying both sides fought is an evasion of moral commitment to which side was on the right...