Word: brutalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. HENRY MUCCI, 88, no-nonsense World War II Army colonel who rescued 513 survivors of the brutal Bataan death march; in Melbourne, Florida. After hearing reports of Japanese atrocities against Allied prisoners in the Philippines, the tough-talking, pipe-smoking Mucci led his Rangers 25 miles behind enemy lines and liberated the emaciated prisoners at Cabanatuan...
Bowman says her confidence often corresponded to the amount of people cheering her on. The 15 miles between Wellesley and the infamous Heartbreak Hill, which have relatively fewer onlookers, are particuarly brutal...
Equus is the story of a boy, Alan Strang (Henry Clarke '00), and his psychiatrist, Dr. Martin Dysart (Ryan McCarthy '97). In delving into Alan's brutal crime, the good doctor attempts to uncover what could possibly have motivated such depravity. With a clever interweaving of flashbacks, testimony, and action sequences, Alan's past and psyche are gradually revealed...
Hong Kong people's fear of China has been real, but it has been mostly out of ignorance about the country itself. The people in Hong Kong are getting ready to dispel this prejudice once and for all with integration. After 1997, the sort of brutal, uncompromising consumer modernism that has hung over generations of Hong Kong people as a result of a century of colonial laissez-faire will conflict with and subsequently conquer China's political culture. Economic reform promises a new (and better) China because the market will force China into a reasonable discourse with the rest...
...Hong Kong at the time, there were demonstrations which condemned the Chinese army's presence and power at Tiananmen. There were virulent speeches against the brutal suppression of students. There were small riots. But above all, disillusionment and cynicism about China became more substantiated and vocal...