Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bearden, who later ran the CIA's Soviet branch and was censured for his role in the Aldrich Ames fiasco, insists that the agency must be willing to deal with shady characters and accept that they occasionally go bad. "You have to make it clear-cut that you have moral standards, and you yourself have to be unswerving in them," he says, citing his own refusal to allow government contacts in Sudan to engage in torture, even when it might have helped foil plots on his own life. But, he says, it is harder for CIA officers to control behavior...
...weapon in toppling white supremacy. This was possible, says TransAfrica's leader, Randall Robinson, because South African oppression could be reduced to a simple black-and-white issue most Americans could understand. But when it comes to black-on-black oppression like Nigeria's, a kind of moral myopia sets in. The affliction stems partly from the patronizing attitude of many whites, who assume that when blacks rule themselves they will inevitably revert to savagery. But it also reflects the unwillingness of some African-American leaders to hold black-ruled nations to the same standards they demand of everyone else...
...says Nobel-prizewinning Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, now in exile in the U.S. "What's needed is threats." Those could involve seizing the loot Abacha & Co. are believed to have stashed in the U.S. and Europe, or even boycotting Nigerian oil. But such punitive measures will not work without moral pressure from those who have allowed the dictators' behavior to pass unchallenged. Above all, Nigerians crave the respect of the rest of the world. Freeing Obasanjo and the other political prisoners would be a tiny first step in showing they deserve...
...gene that is virtually identical to the mouse gene, and it is possible that at least some folks have trouble keeping off pounds because of a mutation in this gene. Barbara Cady, for one, welcomes the notion that she and others become fat not because they lack willpower or moral character but because they have a biochemical abnormality. "I'm not lazy or unintelligent," she says. "I do as many of the right things as slimmer people. But something's going on in my body that makes controlling my weight more difficult than it is for everyone else...
This atmosphere passed, but 200 years later a similar dementia prevails. Its obsessive objects this time are not the Terror in France and the war between France and England, as they were in 1793. They are moral--or, to be more exact, they are about the rhetoric of morality...