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...failed to live up to this charge. In advocating a life attentive only to the standards or values that the individual arbitrarily has chosen himself, fair Harvard—while believing that she is broadening her students’ minds—rather subjects them to the vilest and most dehumanizing slavery...
...photos "put a face on the 4 million." He says, "The statistics in Congo are so important and big, and yet no one talks about them." He called his 2002 book on Congo 100 Years of Darkness. A century ago, Conrad wrote that European settlement in Africa was "the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience and geographical exploration." Referring to the warring parties who have visited so much misery on Congo's people in this war, Bleasdale says, "those words are as valid today as they were then...
...Catholic Church adopted substitution as a legitimate doctrine in the 16th century. The Reformation also bathed in the blood of the Lamb, and rare is the American Protestant congregation that doesn't sing, "O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood/to every believer the promise of God/The vilest offender who truly believes/That moment from Jesus a pardon receives...
...skirmish sparked by Lewis' talk of selling arms to rival tribes. "We knew, 'There goes the neighborhood,'" says tribe member James Craven, a professor at Clark University in Vancouver, Wash. Diplomatic blunders also fueled a confrontation with the Teton Sioux, gatekeepers of the Missouri, whom Clark later called "the vilest miscreants of the savage race." LaDonna Bravebull, a Standing Rock tour guide, touts her ancestors' viewpoint as, "We're not taking your trinkets and your great white father. I don't think...
...thousands of Haitians who settled on the wrong side of the border between the two countries. His murderous chief of police, Johnny Abbes, made sure that the Republic had the best-fed sharks in the Caribbean. "A toad in body and soul," Abbes would be the novel's vilest character were it not for Trujillo's son Ramfis, a playboy known abroad for his affairs with Hollywood stars and at home for raping schoolgirls. Vargas Llosa plants Trujillo securely in his time and place, but the book's dictator also crosses temporal and physical boundaries to remind us that tyranny...