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...usual reasons apply - France's enormous Iraqi oil contracts and enormous unpaid Iraqi loans that would vanish with Saddam Hussein. But they don't suffice to explain such an ambitious enterprise. There is another reason, far more powerful. The Iraq crisis, and the roiling uneasiness in the world about U.S. policy, have provided France with an opportunity for the ultimate grand stroke - an attempt to actually break the American monopoly of power in the world. This is geopolitics at the highest level, and the French, who have been banished from the game for a good half-century, cannot resist...
...nothing else, it helped dull some of the momentum Harvard had developed throughout the second. The rest of that momentum would soon vanish amidst the Terrier barrage at the top of the third...
...small enough to make fair-debt-collection lawsuits just part of the cost of doing business. Individuals who have been harassed can sue for actual damages and might win more, but that route is difficult and time consuming. A better first move is to try to make collector calls vanish in other ways...
...even if it's elusive and even if the term is used brainlessly, evil is still there--a mystery, a black hole into which reason and sunshine vanish but nonetheless ... there. Talk to the children with chopped-off hands in Sierra Leone. It is as fatuous to deny the existence of evil as it is to toss the word around irresponsibly. The children of the Enlightenment sometimes have an inadequate understanding of the possibilities of the Endarkenment. The question is how evil exists, how it works...
...even if it's elusive and even if the term is used brainlessly, evil is still there - a mystery, a black hole into which reason and sunshine vanish but nonetheless ... there. Talk to the children with chopped-off hands in Sierra Leone. It is as fatuous to deny the existence of evil as it is to toss the word around irresponsibly. The children of the Enlightenment sometimes have an inadequate understanding of the possibilities of the Endarkenment. The question is how evil exists, how it works...