Word: regard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...century's greatest thinker, as an immigrant who fled from oppression to freedom, as a political idealist, he best embodies what historians will regard as significant about the 20th century. And as a philosopher with faith both in science and in the beauty of God's handiwork, he personifies the legacy that has been bequeathed to the next century...
...shocking videotapes that Harris and Klebold made before the Columbine massacre provide a unique glimpse into the antisocial mind, say those who have studied ASP. "What's frightening is how cold and calculated all this was, with no regard for the consequences," says Black. "They view it through their perverse world view, not seeing it as others would, which is a characteristic of antisocials." Though the two boys expressed remorse for the hurt they were about to cause their parents, their ability to shut off such pangs of guilt is also characteristic of ASP. "There was some remorseful thinking...
...with a spatula; several were permanently mutilated. A drifter named Luis Garavito confessed in October to kidnapping, torturing and killing 140 children over five years in Colombia. Dylan Klebold went to the prom (and Eric Harris wanted to) before shooting up Columbine High in April. Predators with such little regard for morality and human life defy rational explanation, right...
...Governor and two-time Democratic nominee who styled himself as being above politics (and arguably was) but lost in 1952 and '56. Like Stevenson and the other iconoclasts who descend from him, such as Eugene McCarthy and Paul Tsongas, Bradley has a poetic cast that hides the deepest self-regard and a reluctance to mix it up that threatens to turn him into just another noble failure. "The problem with candidates who are disdainful of the process," says Garry South, chief strategist for California Governor Gray Davis, a Gore man, "is that they are disdainful of the process...
...armed forces supposedly prides itself on its honesty and integrity, but this policy promotes lying. Dishonesty in any other facet of military life, such as cheating on an exam, would result in an immediate dishonorable discharge. Underhandedness in this regard, however, is encouraged and is in fact necessary for a homosexual individual to retain his or her position...