Word: righteously
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...Skilling showed up in the lion's den because he thought he could run circles of deniability around Tauzin and his gang. He got in some convincingly righteous sparring with hopped-up committee members, and mostly blamed his apparent ignorance of anything rotten in the state of Enron on the difficult, highly delegatory task of running a large and complex international energy corporation. And when that didn't fly with the committee - and it surely didn't - Skilling merely pled more ignorance that Enron's house of cards was ever going to fall...
...squares its outrage at al-Qaeda fighters now in detention with standards of international law it has long espoused. For most Europeans, the virtuous course seemed clearly marked by the Geneva Conventions. In France and Italy, though, murkier struggles between government leaders and recalcitrant judiciaries showed that finding the righteous path can be a matter not just of principle, but of political dispute...
...tragedy," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. On the morning of Sept. 11, primary day in New York City, Rudy Giuliani was paddling along with all the other lame ducks into oblivion. The tower of strength had become an object of pity: the iron man's cancer made him vulnerable, the righteous man's adultery made him hypocritical, the loyal man's passions?for his city and its cops and its streets and its ballplayers?divided the city even as he improved it. After abandoning Gracie Mansion, his marriage in flames, he was camping out with friends on the Upper East Side...
...ideal action babe. But she's just Stallone with bigger pectorals, and she has the action hero's sadly familiar urge: to save part of the world and blow the rest up. After Sept. 11, is she an anachronism or a harbinger of Hollywood's next wave of righteous belligerence...
...famous "arrogance of power" is cross-grained, and self-subverted. The world might learn to be more alert to another kind, the arrogance of powerlessness--which may take the form of aggressive exaltation suffused with God's righteous, annihilating power. What is more arrogant than a vocabulary of "infidel," "jihad" and "fatwa"? More arrogant than the totalitarian conceit that Allah obliges "the faithful" to wage vicious holy war against the airplanes and office buildings of the ungodly? What is more arrogant, or in worse taste, than hijack heroes' sleazy dreams of paradise, with 72 virgins at the disposal of each...