Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday, the Crimson made the brutal seven-hour trek to Canton, N.Y., in preparation for the first of the two games. Despite the long distances, road trips have posed no major problems for the Crimson this season. Harvard boasts a 7-4-2 record on the road this season...
...personality (finally freed from her parents' over-whelming influence) plays with the primitive imagery of the island. This section of the book almost resembles Apocalypse Now--it depicts a slow, insane voyage punctuated by the methodical expulsion of students around her, picked off one by one by the sniping, brutal and pitiless teachers. These teachers are every premed's nightmare--a series of Nurse Ratcheds bent on tormenting the weakest and the strongest alike. However, Jane slips through this carnage and, supposedly, beings to grow...
Massachusetts nearly passed a death penalty bill in the fall of 1997 in response to the brutal murder of 10-year-old Jeffery Curley, a Cambridge resident...
...wide dispute. It is a little suspect that the award-winning president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, long an outspoken critic of the Philadelphia police and government, just happened to drive by a cop beating his brother. The Philadelphia police at the time were so corrupt and brutal that the U.S. Justice Department eventually filed a suit against them based on numerous accounts of police misconduct, including the framing of innocent citizens and the widespread fabrication of evidence...
Jones made her name in the 1970s with brutal tales of sexual abuse and violence. So when she came forth with last year's The Healing, a quiet, sweetly engaging novel that took a National Book Award nomination, readers found themselves surprised as much as delighted. Jones returns with the story of a black female truck driver in south Texas who winds up in an effort to harbor border crossers. Mosquito is a carnival of digression and free association, though, with the plot hijacked for paragraphs, if not pages, by muddled tangents. Questions of racial identity provide an interesting subtext...