21.   The China that Deng leaves behind is an ocean of misery, ugliness, and death, an empire as evil as the defunct Soviet Union was.

22.   The first of these is an evil empire.

23.   The notion of Microsoft as an evil empire, once an in-joke among geeks, is now a commonplace.

24.   The problem is that these days Americans are keener on finding their evil empires at home than abroad.

25.   The Sumner-based conservatives have yet to deliver any evil empire jokes about Starbucks.

26.   There are no vast new frontiers to cross, no evil empires to conquer, no foreign enemies to defeat, except for the ever-troubling Saddam Hussein.

27.   Three times this century the United States waged and won a world war against an evil empire.

28.   Today the evil empire is many empires that defy glib moralizing, and America is a more equivocating superpower.

29.   To the authorities, Hoover may be the cold-hearted leader of an evil empire, whose orders are carried out in the free world with ruthless efficiency.

30.   Truth and justice teamed up against the scion of the evil empire.