Word: brutality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mealer, an American, was a young freelance reporter based in Nairobi when he was first sent to the D.R.C. by the AP in 2003. The job repeatedly put him on the front line - his book opens with a long description of a brutal gun battle between two tribal militia groups in the eastern town of Bunia. It then moves to the capital, Kinshasa, where Mealer was posted by the Associated Press wire agency in 2004, and covers the bumpy transition from war to peace. After that, it's back to more fighting in the east, before Mealer embarks...
...naturally strong as those of people from other countries," says Qingdao school principal Qiao, repeating what I am told by Sports Ministry officials. "But we can work harder than anyone else. That's our biggest advantage." Chinese women, in particular, are renowned for their ability to withstand brutal training. Unlike in the U.S., where the privatization of athletics means less money for women's sports--just compare the NBA with the WNBA--the Chinese state lavishes funds on its female athletes from childhood onward. Mao used to say, "Women hold up half the sky." In fact, four years...
...Young people took this message to heart all across the country. Angry protesters filled the streets at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago two months later, provoking helmeted police into a brutal assault. At Harvard the following spring, in 1969, students took over University Hall to protest the institution’s alleged complicity in the Vietnam War, once again provoking a police incursion, followed by a student “strike” that shut down the university...
...presidency,” according to the BBC. As president, Johnson-Sirleaf confronts the difficult task of repairing a country ravaged by war. “She faces what other people would see as insurmountable challenges in restoring a country torn apart by 14 years of the most brutal civil war,” said Hunt, who worked on Johnson-Sirleaf’s campaign and has hosted the president as a guest in her home. She noted that the war in Liberia “makes the U.S. Civil War look like a picnic.” Robert...
Citing the challenges Liberia faces in rebuilding infrastructure and restoring stability after a brutal 14-year Civil War, Johnson-Sirleaf nevertheless said she was optimistic for the future...