Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, President Neil L. Rudenstine announced he wasn't feeling well, and would have to take a break. Then, on Tuesday night, more than 200 first-years started to vomit. On Wednesday, the weather turned freezing and it started to snow. The cold and flu season promises to be brutal...
Besson has a curious fondness for lost girls making their way in a brutal world. In La Femme Nikita his heroine was a drugged-out, teenage murderess- drifter rescued from the guillotine by an intelligence agency and given a new life as an assassin. In The Professional, set in New York City, his subject is a 12-year-old named Mathilda (Natalie Portman), the only member of her family to survive a criminal massacre. She turns to a neighbor for succor. Leon (Jean Reno) is an inarticulate fellow. He drinks milk by the gallon, tenderly cares for a plant that...
...clear to me by now that Trevor and the college must somehow be separated. My problem was one, which I feel compelled to define with brutal candor: how to kill him without getting into trouble." --A passage from the autobiography of Sir Kenneth Dover, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Trevor Aston was a tutor in the college and was known for a drinking problem. Aston eventually committed in a story in the New York Times yesterday; Dover expressed puzzlement about why this sentiment was controversial. "The whole point of an autobiography is to tell the truth...
Mediators negotiated furiouslywith the Bosnian government in Sarajevo today, struggling to patch together a peaceful resolution while the brutal war seemed to be ending as a resounding Serb victory. Diplomats pushed the existing peace plan, which would force the victors into retreat, although U.N. officials acknowledged that they had no leverage to make the Serbs comply. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary William Perry today suggested for the first time that one way out of the morass would be the formation of a "Greater Serbia" with ties between the Bosnian Serbs and Serbia -- a reversal of past initiatives that insisted on retaining Bosnia...
...prompted praise from President Clinton -- who called it "a good step in the right direction" -- and from U.S. allies like the United Kingdom. In Serbia, where the government since August has kept its distance from Bosnian Serbs, a top level minister reportedly slammed the U.N. calling the raid "a brutal reprisal." On the battlefield, U.N. forces went on alert for reprisals from Serbs and started resupplying troops in Bihac -- who had enough rations for just five more days.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...