Word: piousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...esteemed and pious tradition of a certain late night television host (not to mention a certain Crimson alum), I'll offer my top 10 commandments...
...Saudis are interested in lessening the rigors of justice. Even liberals tend to believe the country's methods deter crime better than those of the West. The prohibitions on drinking and other vices do not rankle much. Many simply get around them by leading double lives: pious in public, more freewheeling at home and on overseas forays. Bootleg liquor is easily available. The euphemism for home-brew whiskey is "brown," while gin is called "white"; at parties people will say, "I'll have some brown in a + Coke," or "I'll have some white in a Sprite...
...reported by more than 3,000 journalists, but is any real work likely to get done? Many past summits, in fact, produced results as barren as the North Texas Panhandle. If the chief executives of the world's most powerful economies simply spend three days hammering out a pious communique and frolicking at rodeos and barbecues, then maybe this form of junket should ride off into the sunset...
...Vietnamese general. Safer is not awed by legends carved in brass: "The trouble with generals is that they live in the big picture, and Giap, I decide, is a perfect example. Utterly brainwashed by ambition." TV commentator Bill Moyers, formerly L.B.J.'s press secretary, is still "the sometimes overly pious public defender of liberal virtue." Safer also resents coziness between politics and press, the most blatant example being Vietnamese journalist Pham Xuan An. He worked two jobs: one as a reporter in Saigon for TIME, the other (secretly) as a spy for Hanoi...