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...holed with foot-deep craters ... The country's once flourishing tourist trade has dwindled from $5,000,000 in the 1958-59 season to less than $500,000 ... All the while, Duvalier's reign of terror continues. Shortly after coming to power, he organized his Tonton Macoute, meaning bogeymen in Creole, a vicious, plainclothes gestapo that collects taxes and blood money from merchants [and] tortures and murders suspected anti-Duvalierists. To help the Tonton in their grisly business, there is now even a ladies' auxiliary?the Fillette Lalo, a group of pistol-packing molls who are just as predatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

...greater danger, however, may not be from the risks themselves, but from our failure to accurately identify which ones are really dangerous and which ones aren’t. Risk misperception—too much fear of lesser bogeymen and not enough fear of the bigger ones—leads to dangerous choices both by individuals and society...

Author: By David Ropeik, | Title: Risky Business | 5/23/2003 | See Source »

...many Americans, 2002 will go down in history as the year corporations failed them. Story after incredible story of greed and wrongdoing has created an array of new bogeymen: Tyco's Dennis Kozlowski (31 felony counts), Enron's Andrew Fastow (indicted for wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy), ImClone's Sam Waksal (insider trading). Politicians have huffed and chuffed about how to fix the system, but legislation proposed to date is likely to lack teeth. The Bush Administration responded late to the public's sense of outrage, then seemed to lose focus. In the end, the only man who appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eliot Spitzer: Wall Street's Top Cop | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

First, we must recognize that in spite of all the plaints of Western peace-mongers, the ideology of al-Qaeda and its fellow travelers is not the “inevitable outgrowth” of Third World poverty, globalization, U.S. neo-colonialism, and a host of other bogeymen beloved of the know-nothing Left. True, it finds footsoldiers among the poor and dispossessed of Pakistan and Palestine. But the angry young men who crowd the streets of Peshawar and line up to train as mujahadeen are pawns, not leaders, and their marching orders do not bubble up, unbidden, from...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ideology of Our Enemies | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...bacillophobia: ... microbes ballistophobia: ... missiles or bullets barophobia: ... gravity basophobia: ... inability to stand bathophobia: ... depth batrachophobia: ... amphibians bibliophobia: ... books bogyphobia: ... bogeymen Bolshephobia: ... Bolsheviks bromidrosiphobia: ... body smells bufonophobia: ... toads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phobias From A to Z | 3/24/2001 | See Source »

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