Word: blatantness
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Bunker says her class at first found it "laughable" to share a room with such blatant reminders of competition and aggression. Now, however, students "see [the wrestling room] as a room of transformation," she says...
...apology to the students who attended the show. It is unconscionable that a representative body would allow these comics to degrade women, gays and minorities. How did the members think that a Harvard audience would respond to this kind of humor? Did they think it would laugh at such blatant bigotry...
...turn public sentiment against the war. What Saddam has apparently failed to grasp is that unlike the shaky policy that maintained the U.S. presence in Vietnam, Bush's goals enjoy the support of the United Nations, a multinational force, Congress and a vast majority of Americans. Moreover, Saddam's blatant disregard for civilians -- his initial holding of unwilling Western "guests," the torture and killing of unarmed Kuwaitis, his ongoing Scud attacks against civilian targets in Israel -- has ensured that he will not be lionized as Ho Chi Minh was during the Vietnam War. If anything, his brutality has strengthened allied...
These dark fantasies may not be imagination run wild. During the eight-year Iran-Iraq conflict, Baghdad repeatedly demonstrated its blatant disregard for the 143 articles of the third Geneva Convention that address the treatment of POWs. A 1985 U.N. report issued after visits to eight prison camps in each country concluded, "Physical violence appeared to be particularly common in POW camps in Iraq." Among the atrocities cited by prisoners: assaults on genital organs, beatings with truncheons and wire cables, electric shocks and mock executions. Late last week Baghdad announced that it was temporarily halting broadcast of POW interviews. That...
Washington did not finally cut off aid until 1989, when Siad Barre's massacres of rival clans became too blatant to ignore, but the level of its contributions had been sinking steadily. Now that the cold war is over, Third World conflicts no longer figure as potential victories or losses for the U.S. or the Soviet Union, ironically making the world safer for brush-fire wars and insurrections...