Word: moralizes
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...said Blair last week, speaking of the dangers of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, "shouldn't be left to face these issues alone." But instinctive support for Washington isn't the whole story. Blair is one of the few modern European politicians comfortable thinking of the world in moral terms. There's a strain of Victorian rectitude in him that explains why he's convinced of Saddam's venality. The soon-to-be-published British dossier on Saddam's behavior, say two sources who have read it, will stress the Iraqi leader's brutality - his use of torture...
...hard-liners - those who insist that you can't get rid of the threat from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction without getting rid of Saddam - just going to the U.N. has risks. Diplomatic negotiations, with their shuffled compromises and ambiguous texts, are not the favorite terrain of the moral-clarity crowd, who need no fresh justification to get rid of Saddam. A White House aide says sharply, "We haven't said anything about a new [Security Council] resolution." But in practice, both American and foreign diplomats are working on the assumption that now that debate has shifted...
...little presidency--which began with the slimmest electoral margin since 1876 and suspicions that he wasn't ready for the job--was lifted in the instant that so much else was crushed. In the days that followed, Bush found his voice and his purpose, because for once the simple moral clarity to which he reduces most questions was exactly what Americans needed to hear. But what if the rare, incandescent clarity of last fall, so perfectly tailored to his black-and-white way of thinking and speaking, has now come and gone? Bush has always preferred his poison straight...
...students of recent Swiss history can attest, international public pressure?especially when it relates to moral issues?can be highly effective in lifting banking secrecy. A long-standing tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, secrecy was codified into Swiss law in 1934, just as Hitler was consolidating his power in Germany, Stalin was purging his opponents in the Soviet Union and a clenched fistful of dictators were strutting around other European countries. By law, bankers who breach client confidentiality today face up to six months in jail and a fine...
...Sopranos has always been masterly at being timeless and up to the moment at once. In the late '90s, the show was a tale of moral struggles in boom times. It analogizes even better to the white-collar scandals of 2002. "The Enrons, the Grubmans and the Global Crossings ... those guys are bigger criminals than the Sopranos," says Pantoliano. "The thing I like about The Sopranos is that if you cross someone, there is retribution. If you are a rat, you will be punished...