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...name of the presevation of virtue and with an impeccable, unassailable logic, did in those whom it could neither control nor convert: the first of these took place in the ecclesiastical dungeons of pre-modern Spain, and the other on the gibbits of Salem. In both cases, a relentless logic and a fear of an untidy universe provoked in ordinarily pious and decent people an evil all the more heinous for its pretensions to reason, virtue and compassion...
...horror of 23 dead did not counterbalance the well-established lobbying might of the National Rifle Association. Opposing what some pro-gun legislators called a "feel-good amendment," the N.R.A. mobilized its 2.5 million members in a relentless and successful campaign to defeat the measure. An Administration spokeswoman, employing one of the gun lobby's favorite bromides, said the President opposed the law because it is impossible to "legislate behavior." If that were really so, there would be no need for most of the laws that have provided the glue for civilization over the past 4,000 years...
...earned a reputation over the years as the financial whiz of this industry. You invented frequent-flyer plans and supersaver fares. You are also known as perhaps the most relentless cost cutter in the business...
...that measure, Bush is doing the job right. But there is a danger and a downside to relentless attack. Resentment collects and coagulates among the defeated. Toughness sometimes shades into arrogance and stubbornness. Author Gloria Steinem hardly bothered to focus her ire on the Senators who in the end supported Judge Thomas for the Supreme Court and instead unleashed her anger against "the master puppeteer." In the political world that is both grudging compliment and warning. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, smarting yet again from defeat, took the floor after the Thomas vote and poured unusual rancor on Bush. Every...
Mystery hates the relentless predictabilities of dogma. It was a mystery that was on display before the Senate Judiciary Committee. That part of the truth was available to anyone whose mind was not lost in dense preconceptions. Politics and ideology have their organizational uses but are in general the enemies of deeper human truth. According to the polls, Americans around the country did not subscribe to the ideological conclusion to which so many in the women's movement leaped -- the appalling syllogism that: 1) sexual harassment is horrible and widespread (it has happened to me and to many I know...