Word: witchhunt
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...left so they could look directly at Lay as he testified about being "on the battlefront" in the final months of Enron before it collapsed under a pile of debt in 2001. Lay blamed Enron's collapse largely on his former CFO Andy Fastow and described a witchhunt to destroy the company led by Wall Street Journal reporters and short sellers...
...witchhunt involves attacking the powerless, a witchhunt involves a belief in the occult, a witchhunt involves magistrates who also share the belief of the people in the occult. It’s a metaphor that’s employed all too often and a very sloppy one. Surely gossip and rumor played a huge role, but it’s not as though people began deluding themselves in 1692. The people who die, the people who are sacrificed, are often powerless, often old, widowed women. Those are the people who end up being sacrificed to the fanaticism and frenzy...
...those accidently misplaced by otherwise good-intentioned campaign volunteers--can be promptly removed without further damage to the election process. Such posters, unlike other campaign violations, do not constitute an "irreparable harm." Furthermore, the rule can also be exploited by other candidates, who might send workers out on a witchhunt for their opponents' postering violations...
...this perversion of justice, that "unusual" young people can and do develop into functional adults. Surely there are many students here at our fine University, who had rocky early teen years, perhaps thanks to a penchant for grunge rock or even an unnatural affinity for medieval literature. A literal witchhunt to eliminate uniqueness among youth would only restrict the many innovations their creativity has so often brought to our society. Unusual children have developed into such great minds as Albert Einstein, Steven Spielberg, Mozart and countless others--not so scary after...
...Dave and Jay, taping at 5 p.m. won't cut it this time. Bill Maher and "PI", however, stayed up late to deliver an "original draft" full of double-edgers -- none, alas, funny enough to repeat here. Attention journalists: Anne Taylor Fleming thinks we're on a "crazed sexual witchhunt." Beats working...