Word: moralizes
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...DARUVALLA/The Hague THE CONVERT Anne Sofie Roald, 48, Sweden Most angry young students join marches or sign petitions. Anne Sofie Roald took the veil. When she discovered Islam at the University of Oslo in the early '80s, the faith seemed to offer all that she sought - fellowship, moral grounding, even ideological compatibility. "I was thinking about how the First World was exploiting the Third World," she says. As she read the works of such anti-Western thinkers as Sayyid Qutb, "I saw my ideas," though she now admits the writings are "apologetic literature" for a brand of Islam more radical...
...more than a businessperson, more than a person who made testing his goal,” she said. “He was an incredible person because he always acted from a strong moral standpoint...
...slipped away, a few voices rose to stem history's tide. He assesses the efforts of comic-opera geniuses Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as novelist Ian Fleming, whose agent James Bond was a one-man antidote to the Cold War. Also Margaret Thatcher, for whom decline was a moral question but whose "hectoring intolerance proved her undoing...
...really far and carry heavy things,” as well as how to sew. After entering training as “a wise-ass who thinks he’s crazy hot shit,” Heilman emerged a “functional, obedient and moral soldier” with a lot more muscle on his bones...
...Necessity has not been proven, and because it has not been proven I am not prepared to endorse a stance of moral legitimation over Iraq,” he said...