Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fast-forwarded or merely strict, the pace is a challenge to the dancers, particularly the ballerina who plays the heroine, Princess Aurora. She must appear to be a quicksilver sprite, but with only one intermission, the role is brutal. Of the five alternating ballerinas, the radiant Darci Kistler best maintained the illusion that she had just thought up these steps and was dancing them for the first time. Kyra Nichols stood out for the moral quality, essential in a fairy tale, that she brought to the part...
BUSINESS: Detroit's Brutal Crunch...
...group, dubbed Harvard Against Repression of the Kurds (HARK), began meeting last Wednesday in reaction to recent reports detailing the horrors of the Kurdish exodus from Iraq. Millions of Kurds are streaming into neighboring Iran and Turkey in search of food and shelter and a safe haven from the brutal civil war that is tearing apart the country...
...Saddam is rightfully the target of public fury and condemnation for his brutal suppression of the rebels, George Bush has borne the brunt of the blame for Western inaction. The President not only failed to explain clearly why the U.S. was unwilling to support the insurgents, but he seemed to show no mercy when their rebellion turned into a rout. Declared Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory: "The sight of those wretched souls streaming into Turkey . . . as Bush abandons them on the 18th hole of a Florida golf course, makes you wonder if in this case it is peace, rather than...
After a ten day layoff, the Crimson (2-4 overall, 1-1 Ivy) now begins a brutal schedule, playing two games a week for the rest of the season. And the opponents lying in wait are an ominous bunch. Brown. Yale. Massachusetts. Princeton...