Word: moralizes
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...China's claims to sovereignty over Taiwan are almost entirely without merit by any reasonable historical, political or moral standard. Nor is there anything surprising about the people of Taiwan's desire to run their own affairs. Only their freedom to speak their minds is new. Eric Wedemeyer Tokyo...
...England, where they've been hosting their own version of the Games off and on since 1612. Indeed, if Pierre de Coubertin, who founded the modern Olympics in 1896, had been taken literally when he asserted that "The Anglo-Saxon race is the only one that fully appreciates the moral influence of physical culture," we all might have been spared synchronized swimming. Instead we might be cheering as the world's finest athletes hurl themselves downhill in pursuit of a piece of cheese or watching slo-mo replays of bloodied shin kickers or muddied bog snorkelers going for the gold...
These are biblical times. The turning of the second millennium has brought war, rumors of war and all sorts of neo-Jehovian high jinks. Our leaders are plagued by enemies and temptations that have turned out to be divinely revelatory. Bill Clinton-the exemplar of baby-boom licentiousness and moral relativism-was brought low by a thong-flashing Gomorrean hussy; in the subsequent public scourging, his debauchery yielded more profound character flaws: his tendency to lawyer the truth, pity himself and blame others. And George W. Bush? This most publicly religious of Presidents has been set upon by a series...
...That said, assassinations would be morally murky even if they were useful. Israel’s criminal justice system does not exist just for cases in which the police work is convenient and the arrest of a suspect simple; fair and open trial is the only ethical way to deal with criminals, no matter how much pain and suffering they manage to cause. Israel should have arrested him and tried him in a court of law—enough evidence was out there to convict Yassin fairly. In this way, Israel could have removed him from the Hamas chain...
...justified the need for scientific understanding on the basis of the needs of a globalized society, another perennial (if somewhat meaningless) refrain in this curricular review. What’s all too obvious, unfortunately, is that this pro-sciences argument follows economic and political lines rather than the intellectual, moral and idealistic principles of liberal arts espoused in the Conant review, which sought to make Harvard students into educated members of a free society...