Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like many of his Khmer Rouge comrades, Duch, now 56 and in detention, had been a teacher (educated, it seems, in schools funded by U.S. foreign aid); unlike them, though, he admitted that he had "done very bad things in my life." More recently, he claimed, he had been working for international relief organizations, helping out in local camps. "He was our best worker," said a refugee official when told that the man who had tried to protect children from typhoid was the notorious torturer who had once written "Kill them all" over lists of nine-year-olds...
...finish the war," says a 25-year-old local nearby, flush with the promise of a new future. "We are Buddhists: if you do badly, bad will come to you. Let us shake hands...
...neighborhoods, the slogan AN ILLEGAL GUN GETS YOU 5 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON was emblazoned on billboards, flyers and city buses. The Martin Agency, an advertising firm based in Richmond, designed a slick TV campaign aimed at changing the psychology of the underworld. "It was niche marketing to the bad guys," says Oliver. "They all know the name Exile. We hit on a label that explains what it does, which is get them out of the community...
This movie is quite bad. Example: the house grows eyes and almost eats the main character. The Haunting, starring Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta-Jones, had few entertaining surprises (I admit it; I screamed once), but for the most part the characters are under- developed and there simply is no atmosphere. Along with the rest of the audience, I mistakenly laughed when I was to be instead seized by terror...
...presidential poll. "It won?t necessarily happen, but it?s a very serious possibility," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "He was on the verge of doing it when the Chechnya war began and again in 1996, and today his situation is more desperate than ever. He?s in bad shape physically, mentally and politically; he has no moral authority and the economy is still a disaster. He?ll let go of power only when can guarantee the safety of his family and himself, and he may decide that a state of emergency is his only option...