Word: brutality
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...will not only be remembered for its duration, but also for the conditions in which it was played. A temperature well below freezing combined with swirling winds made for a very cold afternoon for the 1,192 in attendance in Amherst, Mass. For the players on both teams, the brutal conditions added the additional obstacle of a rock solid, ice-cold field, described by Crimson coach Jamie Clark as an “ice-skating rink...
...That's new. Until recently, the idea of Japanese values conjured up little more than a picture of workaholic company drones. But throughout the world - even in places where Japanese colonialists once unleashed brutal wartime campaigns - the world's second largest economy has suddenly been thrust into the unfamiliar position of exemplar. Developing countries such as Vietnam are studying how Japan refashioned its war-ravaged economy into a technological powerhouse that still maintains its cultural identity. Industrializing nations are looking for ecological guidance from a place that has managed to become an economic giant while still embracing a conservationist ethos...
...thinks back to how dangerously unstabilizing the collapse of the Soviet Union was thought to be in the early 1990s, it is little short of miraculous that the Continent should have been so peaceful, and so prosperous, for so long. Even the wars of the Yugoslav succession, long and brutal though they may have been, were contained. In the mid-1990s, there were fears that other parts of Central and Eastern Europe would see the same sort of ethnic cleansing as the former Yugloslavia. It never happened...
...time Israeli gangsters were more discreet than today's brutal new breed. Killings used to be conducted in a quiet manner with a knife or an execution in a remote place, with the corpse buried in the sand dunes south of Tel Aviv. But today, assassins open fire in crowded cafés or set off explosives. Alperon prefered to use the simpler kinds of violence; he was destroyed by the new fashion...
...India’s version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” when he is arrested under suspicion of cheating. An uneducated orphan working at a telemarketing firm couldn’t possibly get so far on the show, right?As Jamal is brutally interrogated by police officers, flashbacks reveal how he managed to learn the answer to each question on the show, delivering the beautiful, exhilarating story of his life. After Jamal and his brother, Salim (Madhur Mittal), watch the murder of their mother by anti-Muslim rioters, they embark on a spectacular...