Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...severity of his disorder, not in its content." That is the classic "we are all murderers" defense, and Wilkinson is wise not to push it. He is more effective when he takes a close look at Jackson's ex-wife Carolyn, the quintessential battered woman. Her husband was chronically brutal and unfaithful; for amusement he liked to sneak LSD into her food. Yet even now she proclaims her love and longs to ask him "what had happened, and if there's a hereafter I hope I have that chance...
...hold on power is based on his brutality, his control of key military units and broadcast media, and his elite security forces. But there is also a personal element: his knack for co-opting former enemies is little short of amazing. Nguza Karl-i-Bond, who published an account of brutal tortures inflicted on him by Mobutu's minions, later proceeded to serve him twice as Prime Minister. As Mobutu shifts appointees in and out of office, sometimes on a monthly basis, erstwhile opponents have shown a willingness to return to his orbit, occasionally banking tidy sums in the process...
...second time in two weeks, a respected woman with a high-profile career watched her reputation shredded by a brutal vetting process. Unlike Baird, Wood had broken no laws; the dilemma for the Clinton Administration was that the circumstances faintly echoed the previous case. While Baird admitted flouting the law by hiring two illegal immigrants and failing to pay taxes for them, Wood insisted she was innocent of any wrongdoing. When she had first employed an undocumented Trinidadian baby-sitter in 1986 for her son Ben, the law allowed citizens to hire illegal aliens. Moreover, Wood said she had paid...
...masks transform the actors into cartoon-like creations who rape, rend and mutilate each other. Viscerally effective but some-how distant, the brutal sexual situations manage to shock without offending. However, anyone with delicate sensibilities will likely not be able to stomach the sight of ribbons, knives and concrete interacting with appendages that aren't designed for such rough treatment...
...their bravado, many of the hacker hoods come from broken homes and have deep psychological problems. Rosenfeld's parents split up when he was 15, and the young man recalls brutal physical fights with his hard-drinking father. Several months ago, the hacker literally hacked his wrists with a razor, in his second attempt to kill himself since 1991. "Most of my childhood is a blur, partly because of LSD and partly because I just don't want to remember," says Rosenfeld, who is open, insightful and very likable when he removes the cybermask. "I have no clue...