Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advised can in retrospect look involuntary. If you meant not to, wished you hadn't, know you shouldn't have, you can rationalize saying you didn't and not think of yourself as a liar. Some forms of withholding information are sanctioned. Alcoholics Anonymous, which otherwise insists on brutal honesty, allows an exception for not telling your spouse about affairs. Annulment, when an applicant says he lacked due discretion to enter into marriage, is a form of sanctified lying about...
...quite so distressing if students were also exposed to more nontraditional ideologies or exhorted to critique the "great thinkers." For example, in many courses dealing with international relations, Harvard offers little critique of American patriotism or nationalism, and issues such as America's neo-imperialism and often brutal treatment of Third World nations are not even acknowledged. Many of these courses, with their slavish insistence on American righteousness and their presumptions of American exceptionalism, should probably be offered not in the government or history departments but instead as part of the Folklore and Mythology curriculum...
...hundred experienced teachers surveyed in 1995 were brutal about the education they had received, describing it as "mind numbing," the "shabbiest psychobabble" and "an abject waste of time." They complained that fragmented, superficial course work had little relevance to classroom realities. And judging by the weak skills of student teachers entering their schools, they observed, the preparation was still woefully inadequate...
CONVICTED. DUSAN TADIC, 41, brutal Bosnian Serb prison guard; of killing and torturing Muslim civilians in 1992; concluding the first trial of the war-crimes tribunal; in the Hague...
...peak. So for ARCELI KEH, better known to most people as the Woman Who Had a Baby at 63, the obvious way to put aside a little nest egg for her daughter was to sell her story, complete with interview, home videos and family snapshots. After a quick but brutal media race, the National Enquirer emerged victorious, handing over a six-figure sum to the Keh family, who told the magazine they would like to have another child. Then, after the dust had cleared, a new bidding war ensued--to buy from the Enquirer the rights to the video. Although...