Word: brutality
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...produce noticeable results on the ground. Humanitarian considerations aside, Washington does have cause for concern. In 1994 the U.S. spent more than half a billion dollars to assist the victims of the Rwandan tragedy. Funds might better be spent this time in preventive action. More than two years of brutal civil war have demonstrated that talk alone is not enough. "We need practical measures if we are not going to plunge into the abyss," warned a U.N. official last week. That may prove an understatement. For many Burundians, the plunge has already begun...
Stories still circulate about one collegiate crew coach who told a team after a particularly brutal workout that no one had put in their best effort because no one had thrown...
Fallows is particularly brutal about the corrupting effect of journalists' taking huge fees (which they seek to keep secret) for speaking to corporate and special-interest groups, something most politicians are rightly barred from doing. Cokie Roberts of ABC and her husband Steve of U.S. News & World Report are politely zapped as exemplars of this buckraking game. But they are not the best examples of what is most insidious about the process. Far worse are those journalists whose eagerness to get such lucrative gigs causes them to scramble to get on the type of TV shoutfests that prize glib, contentious...
...Russian President Boris Yeltsin said 82 hostages were released as the Russian army ended a four-day siege, killing all of the Chechen rebels holed up in Pervomayskaya, but conflicting reports indicated that only about half that many hostages survived the Russian offensive. Yeltsin's government had justified the brutal assault on Wednesday by arguing that all of the hostages were already dead. Unconcerned with the contradiction, a triumphant Yeltsin vowed to take the war to Chechen leader Jokhar Dudayev: "Now we will strike a blow at those Dudayev strongholds where there is no civilian population...
Brown said the graduate student teaching assistants were the victims of a "brutal campaign of intimidation...