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Hunting the devil: democracy's rhetorical impulse to war.
The rhetoric of evil, so prominently evident in contemporary presidential public address, articulates a primal motive for the war on terrorism by projecting democracy's shadow onto the external enemy. In this regard, the president's discourse is a manifestation rather than aberration of U.S. political culture, a reflection of the nation's...
Tags: America, Bush, Democracy, democracy, devil, Evil, Government, Johnson, president, rhetoric, Robert, secretary, terror, White House
Research articles 2007-12-01
Returning to "Normal"
... even in the aftermath of mourning senseless murders, I am convinced I have the greatest job in the world. On a sleepy Monday morning in April, evil invaded the Virginia Tech VT campus, and 33 people were killed. ASABE member Julia Pryde was one of them - a young...
Tags: Evil, Virginia Tech
Research articles 2007-07-01
Virginia Tech shooting reveals hard truths
The massacre at Virginia Tech was not a national news story for me. It was a local reality. The shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, grew up not far from my home. One victim came from our neighborhood and another half dozen from the general area. My son, John Paul, graduated from Tech...
Tags: Evil, MARKETING, tragedy, Virginia Tech
Research articles 2007-05-04
Reader responses regarding "The Mormons" PBS series
Here are Deseret Morning News reader responses regarding "The Mormons" PBS series. In messages where only an e-mail address was available and the message itself did not identify the writer, "no name" is noted. I personally felt that the documentary was mediocre at best. It was not represented...
Tags: Angel, Church, church, documentary, evil, Jesus, Ken, Leadership, PBS, Sandy
Research articles 2007-05-03
Nietzsche's radicalization of Kant *.(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and Immanuel Kant)(Critical essay)
Introduction Nietzsche does not reject morality but re-figures it beyond good and evil and alongside a Kantian conception of autonomy. (1) He does not stay within Kant's framework for practical reason but radicalizes it. This is clear in terms of his critique of ressentiment, presentation of...
Tags: autonomy, Autonomy Corp. plc, Bernstein, Books, critique, democracy, Evil, General Motors Corp., Leadership
Research articles 2006-10-01
While we're at it.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)(Evangelicals and Catholics Together)
* From its beginnings in 1992, Evangelicals and Catholics Together ECT has been very deliberately an unofficial project composed of a continuing working group of participants who speak from and to their several ecclesial communities. There is an acknowledged difference between Catholic and evangelical participation, in...
Tags: America, American Civil Liberties Union, Benedict, Caesar, Christianity, church, Dr., Evil, New York Times Co., Phillips, president, Richard, survey, women
Research articles 2006-10-01
After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust.(Book Review)
After the Evil: Christianity and Judaism in the Shadow of the Holocaust, by Richard Harries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 239 pp. $22.00. Richard Harries provides those engaged in Jewish-Christian dialogue with a valuable example of the complex ambiguities of that dialogue in ...
Tags: Evil, Holocaust, Judaism, Oxford University Press, SHADOW
Research articles 2005-06-22
An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror
An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror. By David Frum and Richard Perle. New York: Random House, 2003. 284 pages. $25.95. Reviewed by Dr. W. Andrew Terrill, Research Professor, US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute. Since the 9/11 attacks upon the World Trade Center...
Tags: Evil, Government, Strategy, terrorism, U.S., U.S. Department of State
Research articles 2004-12-22
'He that stands it now …' A writer responds to his critics
WHEN Richard Perle and I published An End to Evil at the beginning of the year, we touched off about as nasty a literary brawl as the book-review pages have witnessed in some time. Michiko Kakutani, the daily book reviewer for the New York Times, was reduced to sputtering indignation:...
Tags: al-Qaeda, Evil, Government, Iran, Israel, Richard, terrorism, U.S.
Research articles 2004-03-22
Evil descends on USA: cable net counts on crime thriller to anchor prime time.(Programming)
Crime. Punishment. And a sexy new star. But don't look to the broadcast nets for this hunka hunka burning bad. It's a cable exclusive. Touching Evil, a remake of a British crime thriller executive-produced by action star Bruce Willis and his partner Arnold Rifkin, lights up...
Tags: Cable, Evil, NBC Universal Inc., NETWORKING, programming, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, U.S.
Research articles 2004-03-08
ABC hopes series will give it some resuscitation
For ABC, Stephen King's horrors have been a long-running delight. Miniseries adaptations of the author's works have drawn big ratings for more than a decade. The stakes are even higher now: The struggling network hopes Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital will become its first successful dramatic series launch since Alias...
Tags: ABC Inc., Construction, Evil, NETWORKING
Research articles 2004-03-01
A tragedy of errors: the neoconservatives' war has proved a disaster. No wonder they're running for cover.(End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror)(Book Review)
An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror. By David Frum and Richard Perle. Random House. 284 pp. $25.95. About a decade ago, I invented a game with a colleague of mine who, like me, had once worked for Irving...
Tags: American University, CAREER, democracy, Evil, ideology, Iraq, Israel, Strategy, U.S.
Research articles 2004-02-23
Garfield's AdReview: Ad Council's latest 'Freedom' commercials miss the mark.(News)(Column)
Byline: Bob Garfield Two years after the terror of Sept. 11, so much is clearer than it was. The world is unruly. Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Dangers lurk everywhere. But so much is murkier, as well. Who is...
Tags: advertisement, American Civil Liberties Union, Evil
Research articles 2003-09-15
Complete list of Emmy nominees
Nominees in all categories for the 55th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, announced Thursday by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences: 1. Animated Program Less Than One Hour: "As Told by Ginger: And She Was Gone," Nickelodeon; "Disney's Kim Possible: Crush," Disney; "Futurama: Jurassic Bark," Fox; "The Simpsons:...
Tags: ABC Inc., CBS Corp., Evil, movie, NBC Universal Inc., PBS, Roman
Research articles 2003-07-18
The postmodern Hitler revival.
Nazism has disappeared, but [not] the obsession it represents for the contemporary imagination.... Is such attention fixed on the past only a gratuitous reverie, the attraction of spectacle, exorcism, or the result of a need to understand; or is it again and still, an expression of...
Tags: CBS Corp., Evil, exhibition, mirroring, Museum, Nazi, New York Times Co., TV, Vienna
Research articles 2003-04-01
Seeing Evil but Blinking - A former CIA case officer outlines the forces that undermined the Agency and contributed to American vulnerability to terrorism.
Ewa Wasilewska is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, where she teaches courses on the Middle East and Central Asia. She has conducted archaeological and anthropological fieldwork in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey and has traveled extensively through the...
Tags: agency, CIA, Evil, Government, Iraq, MARKETING, officer, Saddam, terrorism, vulnerability
Research articles 2002-07-01
Remarks at Oak Park High School in Kansas City, Missouri
June 11, 2002 Thank you very much. Please be seated. Thanks for that great Missouri welcome. I'm honored to be back here, to talk about how we're doing and what we're doing to make sure that America is safe and secure and America's a promising place for everybody who...
Tags: agency, America, Evil, FBI, Government, homeland, job, MARKETING
Research articles 2002-06-17
"The Triumph of Evil." A BBC News WGBH Frontline Co-Production
"The Triumph of Evil." A BBC News WGBH Frontline Co-Production. Written by Steve Bradshaw and Ben Loeterman (1997). I VIVIDLY REMEMBER riding in a car during the summer of 1994 and listening with rapt attention to an account of the tragedy in Rwanda. In just 100 days, following a...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., church, democracy, Evil, Government, Nazi, SOFTWARE, tragedy
Research articles 2002-02-27
Catch me before I kill more: seriality as modern monstrosity
A colleague of mine, lamenting the disasters of her personal life, which included several broken engagements over the previous decade, said despairingly that she seemed destined to be nothing more than a "serial fiancee." This phrase evocatively suggests the power of the word "serial" in contemporary culture. Though "serial" can...
Tags: American Media Inc., Douglas, Evil, FBI, Harris, Jenkins, John, Philip, Press, U.S. Senate, Warner
Research articles 2002-01-01
Anthropology and development: Evil twin or moral narrative?
The academy has chosen to categorize development anthropology as the discipline's evil twin, since the livelihoods of those in the academy depend upon the intensive study of those whom development anthropology would change forever. But development anthropology can also be viewed as a project that provides a moral narrative, based...
Tags: academy, analysis, critique, Evil, FINANCE, knowledge, M., Robert, Strategy, theory, well-being, World Bank
Research articles 2002-01-01
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