Word: moralizes
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...fellow member of the "axis of evil," Kim Jong Il must have found the rapid fall of Saddam Hussein unsettling. But to North Korea's Dear Leader, America is not only a potential military enemy, but also an insidious moral threat. The danger posed is outlined in "On Vigorously Combating the Infiltration of Capitalist Ideology and Culture," a 16-page North Korean document which TIME has obtained. Stamped "For Internal Party Use Only" and purportedly distributed to senior Party officials late last year, the document asserts that the U.S., South Korea and Japan are besieging the North with pornographic videos...
...woke up with margaritas." Alcohol, logic dictates, has the same effect on films as bad writing: it turns young people into cliches. Not only do the 16 people sharing the phat Mexican hotel suite make out indiscriminately, curse and say stupid things, but they also indirectly deliver the requisite moral lesson of a teen comedy: casual sex, even for loutish frat boys, is a pain. "In our house, the girls got all hurt if we brought another girl home," says Matt, 20, an Arizona State student. "They acted like we were a big family, but we'd only known each...
Glickman asserted that most members of Congress are “scientifically challenged,” but said that “practical, moral and legal issues have to be brought to the policy arena in a sensible...
Outspoken opponents and unswerving supporters of the death penalty continually claim that the main issue in the debate is a moral one: should the state execute somebody who has clearly committed a heinous crime? Participants are asked by both sides to forget all those embarrassing stories about inmates released from death row after the state almost sent them to an unearned early grave. We are supposed to assume that our criminal justice system operates, or can one day operate, with little or no error...
This isn’t to say that there’s much of a moral victory in losing to B.C. by a little less. But there is something to be said for getting help from unexpected places...