Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Taliban Afghanistan, Islamic fundamentalists make the Christian Coalition look like the ACLU. After a brutal takeover, women were-ordered to go home-and stay there. Should they desire to journey outside they must cover themselves from head to toe and be in the company of a male relative at all times. So what if you're one of 30,000 widows of fallen soldiers and have to take your sick child to the hospital? Sorry. Bang. Dead. Or at least that's what happened last week to one poor mother trying to carry her critically ill infant to medical help...
...staff expresses proper outrage, but writes the wrong prescription. There is little need for hate crimes legislation. Hate crime is a ridiculously broad-based and anti-populist construction. The mere fact that this brutal crime is top news means that it is a rarity. Further, society takes "hate crimes," or, more appropriately, "crimes," quite seriously. Many states execute convicted killers and imprison batterers for years. That's serious enough. Legislating the content of criminal motive confuses elite sentiment with proper jurisprudence...
...same rebels are nudging Hyde out front, to put a kinder face on the brutal process about to get under way. "You're going to be seeing a lot more of Henry Hyde," says a Gingrich aide. Hyde cringes when Gingrich storms the stage. The Speaker, says Hyde wryly, "is not averse to expressing his strong views, which he does intermittently, in between spells of 'Leave it all to Henry.'" And Hyde is not shy about standing up to Gingrich. When he aired plans last spring to put Hyde in charge of a select committee to handle impeachment questions, Hyde...
...chance 10 years ago but who now go home and grow up. Maybe they will become doctors too. But it is also a war zone, and if you are not fighting the enemy or loading the weapons or plotting the next campaign, you can hardly understand what a brave, brutal, mysterious place this really...
...prelude to transplant is brutal, however. The children receive near lethal doses of radiation and chemotherapy that kill the rapidly dividing sick cells. This leaves the patients without any immune system, so the most minor infection could kill them. It also kills the cells lining the gut, making digestion difficult, and those lining the mouth, producing painful sores...