Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...month, along with several relatives, revealed a shocking rift in Iraq's ruling clan. Hussein Kamel is Saddam Hussein's cousin and son-in-law. A true hard-liner, he oversaw Iraq's program to develop weapons of mass destruction and, as he indirectly admits below, was responsible for brutal repression of Shi'ites and Kurds after the Gulf War. In his first major interview with a Western journalist, Hussein Kamel talked to diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischer in Amman. On one matter he was almost certainly dissembling: though he denies it, authoritative sources say he has met with CIA officials...
Plainly put, the game was brutal--an 8-0 pasting by the Crimson. Add that result to the two Harvard women victories (over Fairfield and Canisius), and Harvard soccer has outscored its opponents so far this year...
...Wednesday through Fri day, NATO conducted the largest combat operation in its history, finally pounding the Serbs after endless bluffing. By Friday, a diplomatic breakthrough had occurred, with all parties agreeing to meet in Geneva this week for preliminary peace talks. After years of war and "ethnic cleansing," the brutal dialectic of aggression, retaliation and reconciliation seemed to have been telescoped into a matter of days. There is still a long way to go, and all hope could yet be dashed-on Saturday the Bosnian Serbs' continued recalcitrance triggered a new nato ultimatum: lift the siege of Sarajevo...
...Toronto jury convicted Paul Bernardo, the handsome "boy next door" accused of the brutal rapes and murders of two teenage girls in Canada, of all nine counts against him in just seven hours. The trial, with its sordid videotape evidence of Bernardo and his wife Karla Homolka sexually abusing the teenagers, often transfixed Canadians with twists and turns akin to those in the O.J. Simpson case. "At the high points of the trial, such as when Bernardo testified, people were lining up at four in the morning to get one of the one hundred courtroom seats," reports TIME's Gavin...
WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING THE DEATH penalty if it is never used in brutal cases like Smith's? Her two defenseless, innocent, loving children died at the hand of their manipulative mother. Not only did Smith lie to Union, South Carolina, the black community and the world, but she is also alive. If all those who suffered sexual molestation reacted the way Smith did, we would have an epidemic of infant murders on our hands ANDRE DUGUAY Raleigh, North Carolina...