Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...fact that it did happen at Harvard [shows that he] exercises thoughtful, moral-based leadership," Ikenberry said Monday...
...deserves this process to go forward, and he does deserve to be reprimanded at least. It could wait, however, until he leaves office." Of course the right-wing Southeastern Legal Foundation knew exactly what it would get by initiating disbarment. The lawyer who'd strayed so publicly from the moral path would be further embarrassed, and the media would take a nice walk down memory lane past such impeachment signposts as "intentionally false and misleading," (Judge Susan Webber Wright) "technically accurate" (Clinton) and of course, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." (Now, wasn't that fun?) Nixon...
Africa is a place where the West prefers to salve its conscience on the cheap. On the one hand, we feel a genuine moral pang when slaughter rages there. On the other, we are not willing to die ourselves to stop it. And sometimes a third factor makes the dilemma still more intractable: a warlord with absolutely no interest in peace. The result is Sierra Leone...
...BLACK & WHITE, above, due out in September from Lionhead Studios, you play a god--a 200-ft.-tall creature who rules over a mythical land with absolute power. Black & White injects moral complexity into computer gaming: you can be a good god or an evil god, the choice is yours. If you've ever felt like Job, this is your chance for payback...
Apart from the anger he would engender among religious conservatives - something he may be able to discount due to their lack of alternatives - it may be hard to shake off accusations of political expediency and hypocrisy. After all, the moral absolutism of the pro-life position is difficult to square with the cold-hearted strategizing involved in picking a partner with opposing views. Then again, Bush has been careful to keep a somewhat fuzzy definition of his pro-life position. So don't be surprised to find him reverting to the kind of language he adopted prior to being reelected...