Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been called a "little dragon" and the "next Japan," a country poised on the brink of economic superpower status. But this notion has blinded some observers to the fact that at many levels, Korea remains a backward country. For starters, the military controlled the presidency for 32 often brutal years from...
...could be seen putting his foot on Denny's neck and that Williams was the one who hit Denny with a brick, then performed a demonic high step for the helicopter news cameras. As it appears to have done in the first Rodney King trial, repeated viewing of the brutal videotape may have anesthetized the jury, so that it counted for less in their final judgment...
...brutal attacks on the exiled President's supporters are directed by men with similar interests but higher positions: Lieut. Colonel Joseph Michel Francois, the chief of police, and Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, the army commander. Under a U.S.-U.N.-brokered deal struck between Aristide and Cedras last July, the general and the colonel were to resign two weeks ago, allowing Aristide to return to the island and his office this week. Instead Cedras has broken agreements and employed every kind of delay while subordinates terrorize the population. Those who can have fled the capital, hoping the countryside is safer. Like...
...difference between a Harvard conversation on racism and conversations in the "real world" is that the former is often a careful, non-offensive one, while the latter are filled with brutal honesty. Paradoxically, racists who do not care whom they offend, can talk more openly about hatred between ethnicities than the individual who is attempting to see all sides of the issues. And people who are confronted by racism everyday are not embarrassed talking about something which concerns their most basic relationships with other people...
...racism (couched in the safe term of "diversity") in an official setting of proctor groups and surrounded by peers who are still strangers, first-years could not be expected to engage in truly candid discussion. Even if important issues were discussed, they were probably not discussed with the brutal honesty of two co-workers who could speak their mind without the worry of offending each other...