Word: moralizes
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...terror: "He is looking for a world in which Islam regains the dominant role, and naturally that would include oil and nukes. But to say it's about oil and nukes suggests it's not a metaphysical struggle, which it is for him. He thinks this is a big moral battle in which he's got Allah's sanction to attack the West." In a 1996 proclamation, bin Laden asked, "O Lord, shatter their gathering, divide them among themselves, shake the earth under their feet and give us control over them...
...Child, the actor Sterling Hayden, the poet Archibald MacLeish, the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and three future directors of the CIA. Donovan, a Wall Street Republican who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor for combat in World War I, made the OSS hospitable to many communist agents. Much moral confusion flowed from the fact that Stalin, one of history's true monsters, was for the moment an ally. The Germans and Japanese never penetrated the secret of the Manhattan Project's atom bomb, but the Soviets (through Klaus Fuchs, the Rosenbergs and others...
...most treasured principles. The government must be very careful when handling ethical issues like this, especially now that enemies justify their attacks by condemning America’s scarcely ethical approach to foreign policy in areas such as the Middle East. Providing our foes with further evidence of moral double standards is especially risky...
...respect and decency. The speech still leaves Summers’ position on the living wage unclear. We hope that when the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies currently examining the issue makes its report, Summers will choose a course of action that shows the “passionate moral commitment” that he said the University must possess...
Indeed, Summers told the council this week that neither side of the living wage debate can claim moral superiority...