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...eyewitness account of al-Qahtani at Guantanamo, his recently appointed American lawyer tells TIME that al-Qahtani has repudiated all of his previous statements - claiming they were extracted under brutal torture. And that repudiation is sure to fuel the growing number of challenges in American courts from the detainees at Guantanamo whom al-Qahtani fingered...
...when it rears its head in our community. We might think that we are showing respect to the Harvard community by pulling our punches when fellow students cross the line, but, in reality, we are showing a profound disrespect to a broader community that still faces serious injustice and brutal discrimination...
...child can survive outside her body – no longer holds. New York District Judge Richard Casey was right when he said that “The Court finds that the testimony at trial and before Congress establishes that D&X [partial-birth abortion] is a gruesome, brutal, barbaric, and uncivilized medical procedure.” Unless the health of the mother would be seriously endangered, there is no reason why the Supreme Court should allow such a morally repugnant procedure to continue...
...been pressured by South Korean government officials on at least three occasions to tone down the play over concerns that it conflicts with the government's efforts to improve relations with North Korea. He claims the officials advised him to characterize life in the camp as less brutal and asked him to remove a number of key props, including the North's flags and images of Kim and his late father Kim Il Sung. Jung declines to say who the officials were or which ministry they came from...
...kids. Can’t get enough of it, really. Fortunately, they never get their wish because the good guys are always right there to maim, torture and kill the bad guys—and anybody else who happens to be in the way—in graphic and brutal fashion. Extreme violence and moral simplicity is, of course, a hallmark of the action and crime genres. Nobody goes to see a movie like this expecting a deep dissection of the implications of violence on society, or even necessarily a shred of realism. It is, however, a reasonable expectation that...