Word: bloodlust
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...grunts of the XFL, who, the league promises, will get hit harder than their NFL colleagues for far less money while having to wear mikes and get pestered by reporters in midgame. If not intentionally, the XFL is a little like Harold in Harold and Maude, feigning bloodlust to repulse his militaristic uncle; it holds a funhouse mirror up to your father's game, exaggerating everything unsettling about it and daring fans of the original to take offense...
...time to put this to bed." And while the senator's interest in a pardon is likely based in political self-interest - how better, after all, to finally clear Clinton from the national radar - his message is not easily ignored. (Hatch to Ray: The GOP has lost its bloodlust for Clinton. Drop this thing and get him the heck out of here.) And while the President-elect is not rushing to say that he would issue a pardon, he pointedly hasn't ruled it out, either - something he no doubt hopes lends him some power over his predecessor...
With our regular season half shot, football junkies, bloodlust barely sated, are already suffering proleptic pangs of withdrawal. And this year, cruelly, a false hope has been raised: the XFL. Right after the Super Bowl, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation, in alliance with NBC, will kick off its brand of super-smash-mouth football. Vince and the WWF's think tank have come up with some rule changes to make the game more exciting, i.e., more violent. There will be no fair catches. No touchbacks on the kickoff. No "in the grasp" rule to protect the quarterback...
...average life expectancy in this tiny West African nation is 38 years. More than 100 people from a population of 4 million die each day from starvation. The infant mortality rate is 164 per thousand. Once renowned for its pure diamonds, Sierra Leone is now infamous for the bloodlust of its rebels - the guerrillas of the Revolutionary United Front. Kidnapping, mutilation and the raping of children have relegated sport to a low place on the nation's priorities list. In 1996, Sierra Leone sent a 21-strong track and field squad to the Atlanta Games. In 2000, its entire team...
...discussed rationally. One's views on the subject emerge from instincts about human nature, from hidden places in the heart. One's instincts may conflict. My disgust at capital punishment, for example, violates my sense of justice and my fierce impulse to retaliate. But I am revolted by the bloodlust in myself, especially when I find it mirrored - honored! - in our culture and in so many of its works. I mean to say nothing more complicated than this: I think that capital punishment does us no credit. Let it go. Find other means...