Word: totalitarianisms
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...forget that the slim 1% difference between humans and chimps that gave us Mozart, Einstein and Socrates is also responsible for serial killers, totalitarian despots and greasy-palmed politicians...
...tries to be harrowing, introspective, and devastating, but mostly comes across as silly and intellectually incoherent. The most widely deployed rationale among pro-choicers justifies abortion as a private matter, a kind of tragic decision of women affecting their bodies and their lives, with which an overzealous, Puritanical, and totalitarian government must not interfere. Yet by airing all this laundry, Ms. Magazine denies the very consciousness it tries to create. It ostensibly wishes to grant women privacy, yet publicly broadcasts the names, faces, and personal stories of women who have had abortions. The legal defense of abortion rests...
...done this," says Andrus Villem, the Patarei's project manager, who wants to exorcise the ghosts of the past by turning the fortress into an impromptu arts center. The party is a tailor-made metaphor for Estonia itself: freed from the confines of a half-century of totalitarian rule, it's having a blast experimenting with unorthodox ideas as it races to make up for lost time. Estonia has been a frontier state throughout its history, bumping up against Russia to the east and facing Finland across a narrow gulf. Since the three Baltic republics regained their independence...
...Iran Factor In his column on Iran's role in the Middle East conflict [July 24], Joe Klein wove speculation and conjecture into a grand theory that it is all George W. Bush's fault. We are at war with a fanatic totalitarian movement, the aim of which is nothing less than the destruction of the West. Yes, Bush might have made many mistakes, but does Klein really believe that without Bush in office, Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would act more rationally? Thomas A. Edelman Santa Monica, California...
...eight picked Hillary, he says. But the Clinton opposition is at least as ardent. Hillary has already figured as Lady Macbeth in enough volumes to fill a bookmobile, and in the next year the publishing industry will be adding to the collection with such titles as Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton and Whitewash: How the News Media Are Paving Hillary Clinton's Path to the Presidency. One of her hapless opponents for the Senate seat ran an ad against her last week that featured pictures of Hillary and Osama bin Laden on the same screen...