Word: sin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Baseball Gods, in trying to atone for last year's sin, have provided fans this year with the best of both worlds: a handful of dramatic games in October and two league championship series pitting the teams that "should" be playing each other for a trip to the World Series...
...side effects, it is efficient to tax that good to compensate society for the side effects. But in the case of education, those effects are over-whelmingly positive, and thus society should subsidize the procurement of education rather than taxing it. Kassebaum's plan proposes the equivalent of a sin tax on a college education--could anything be more idiotic...
...million dollars a year, but they come back to finish up those last three credits, and do you know why? Because they'd be afraid to look Joe in the eye if they didn't. Other schools have graduation rates of 30 or 40 percent. It's a sin; it's a rip-off. It gives me a pit in my stomach to think about what goes on elsewhere...
...point "It's not enough to tap someone on the shoulder anymore to get their attention. Now you have to hit them with a sledgehammer." Perhaps they have hit us with this visual sledgehammer so that we will reconsider what we regard as innocence and lack of sin, when we forgive greed, gluttony and the rest. Sommerset talks of apathy being regarded as a virtue in the city. The killer wants to awaken society from its apathy and so, maybe, do the film-makers. According to them, virtue may defeat sin but it does not defeat the anger that sin...
Bandit Queen was indeed banned. But Kapur believes that the censors, who demanded 25 significant cuts, have another agenda: "To them the film's most offensive aspect is its depiction of the caste system. To expose this hierarchy of inequality is the worst sin I've committed...