Word: brutalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps you will be interested to know that Theresa Nanziri, whose brutal murder you describe in "Amin's Horror Chamber" [April 30], was one of the leaders of the training staff for Peace Corps Uganda. She represented the best of the pre-Amin Uganda, a strong woman, confident and competent, especially within her field-mathematics. She was a beautiful person as well, who helped many of us to become better teachers. I cannot help wondering how much her association with the Peace Corps endangered her after the U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Uganda, and whether her life...
...some even paused a moment in their diligent march through college to law school--if it's really that bad, is it worth the pain? Several years later, juridical ambition springs anew, however, and John Jay Osborn Jr. '67 is teasing our insecurities again with another novel about the brutal rituals of the law profession. You may make it through Harvard Law, but can you stand the initiation rites of your first year in a prestigious Wall Street firm...
...demonstrators at the cathedral soon received a brutal reply. Columns of heavily armed national police appeared in the square facing its main entrance. A captain blew his whistle and fired a rifle into the air. While protesters scrambled for cover, the police cut loose with automatic rifles, firing volley after volley into the crowd. When the shooting stopped, bodies were lying everywhere on the steps of the cathedral. For six hours, the police refused to let Red Cross workers tend the wounded. By the time they were admitted into the cathedral, 23 persons were dead or dying...
...three heavyweight eights were all undefeated, at 3-0; but none of them had faced Yale. And the Elis were big, bad and brutal...
...cabinet and held a number of portfolios, including housing, transport and education. She also spoke up on treasury matters. Some Tory backbenchers remember vividly the verbal exchange that marked Thatcher as a fighting lady to be reckoned with. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who is renowned for his brutal wit, had just dubbed her "La Pasionaria of Privilege." Thatcher ignored the pointed insult. "Some Chancellors are micro-economic," she answered coldly. "Some Chancellors are fiscal. This one is plain cheap." And she went on to document unerringly Healey's failure to deal with the facts...