Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third time in 14 years, the baseball players' union has called for a midseason strike. This one, barring a lapse into common sense between players and club owners, begins Aug. 12. It could be brief, a blip in the sport's troubled labor history. Some think it will be brutal. As historian Bill James wrote recently, "We may be nearing the end of major league baseball...
...past. Harsh as that sounds, if Britton's death causes Phillips or other abortion providers to step down in fear, Griffin, Hill and others like them will have achieved the goal of all terrorism: to thwart the established policy of a nation through the pinpoint application of brutal violence...
...charge. The defense team in the O.J. Simpson murder case, it was leaked, was planning to accuse one of the police investigators, Mark Fuhrman, of being a "racist" cop who may have planted the bloody glove found in the area behind Simpson's guest house the day after the brutal slayings of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Then came the disclaimer. "Race is not and will not be an issue in this defense," said Robert Shapiro, Simpson's lead attorney. "The only thing we are looking at is credibility of witnesses...
...what have we learned so far? Millions of people languish in a brutal military dictatorship in Haiti. Thousands more try to flee to the U.S. every day. President Clinton linked himself to helping the Haitian boat people during the campaign, although many Americans are opposed to allowing those people in the country. There is no place else that will accept them besides the U.S. That leaves two questions left: what ought to be done and what will be done...
Thank you for presenting a balanced view of domestic violence. Your report states, "Often the drama is fueled by both parties." The media have otherwise toed the politically correct line of the brutal male perpetrator and the innocent female victim. However, both the male and the female are caught up in an orbit of mutual destructiveness. Why do we excuse women's behavior as the by-product of social conditioning while men are held fully responsible for theirs? Only by holding both genders accountable for domestic violence can we begin to address the dangerous fantasies and expectations that underlie physical...