Word: assaultive
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...speak populist truth (and disgust) to the powerless, focusing their inchoate needs and longings from the bully presidential pulpit. Instead, he?s given us an awkward mix of standard genres that doesn?t give us what we desperately need in this increasingly desperate political season - a black and snarling assault on our imbecile status quo. Man of the Year is a watchable film, but it - and its star - might have done so much more...
...assault of a gay undergraduate last year—which had at one point mobilized hundreds of students, impelled prosecutors to push for two hate-crime convictions, and prompted a dean to pledge that administrators “are not sweeping this under the rug”—ended quietly last week, having lost its steam after 17 months of legal sluggishness...
Defendant Timothy J. Kelleher was ultimately found guilty of assault and battery but not with “intent to intimidate”—Mass. state law’s way of describing a crime motivated by hate. And the case against a second man, who reportedly told the victim that, “We’ll follow you all the way back to your apartment, you fucking Jewish faggot,” was dropped, at the urging of the prosecutor...
...wasn’t arrested because the assault and battery was a misdemeanor and did not occur in the officer’s presence,” Harvard University Police Department spokesman, Steven G. Catalano, told The Crimson at that time...
Kelleher, of Somerville, Mass. is 6-feet tall and Jose T. Sousa, the second man charged with assault, of Winthrop, Mass., is 5’11” tall. Both weighed over 200 pounds. Garcia, who is 5’3” tall, weighed in at 130 pounds that night...