Most large corporations continue to treat them as a necessary evil, doing or saying little more than required by law, shareholder-rights advocates say.
"By using the banner of human rights, they try to damage the image of our institutions with the malevolent goal of obstructing their participation in the fight against them and having an open field for their evil doing," Admiral Saynez said.
Her decision is also likely to cut the legs from under the pro-western pro-democracy activists and help save the hardliners in Tehran the way George Bush's labeling Iran part of an "Axis of Evil" did.
McCarron says he was intimidated, but he none the less managed to convey "a kind of evil – don't mess with me".
Does an evil act become lesser simply because it is problematic?
Dame Anne Begg, Labour chairman of the Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee, said: "It was an evil act and I don't think we should be making policy on the back of a very exceptional case".
But like a true evil professional, Evil doesn't let such personal discord cloud his judgment: "No, actually the boy is very astute.
In terms of evil done to an identifiable person, there is no victim of Huhne's offence: it is a crime against justice in general – and described as such.
We assume that in some palace dungeon a press officer is having evil done to his private parts.
"For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world.
