Word: brutalize
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...past two weeks, with two new cases in China's Guangdong province and suspected cases turning up in Manila and Hong Kong, it seems that severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is re-emerging too. The brutal culling of masked palm civets from Guangdong wildlife markets and farms that commenced last week has only exacerbated the sense that matters had been spiraling out of control. Forestry officials incinerated some civets, boiled others to death and drowned still more in disinfectant. Also called a civet cat, the small, furry mammal with big innocent-looking eyes is unrelated to real cats, being more...
...danger, of course, is that the cops will become too assertive and stray back into the brutal behavior that plagued the L.A.P.D. in the past. Bratton has repeatedly said his cops may not "break the law to enforce the law," but complaints against officers are 4.5% higher than they were in 2002. That merely indicates that his men are doing their job, the chief argues, and he points out that there has been a 28% increase in shots fired at officers in the same period. "The gang bangers don't like the game being taken to them, and they...
...Grams has the narrative brazenness of Mulholland Dr. But this time it's for real. As a recovering drug addict who suffers a brutal shock, Watts must navigate between numbness and steely rage, mourning and the stirrings of a romantic interest that seems the worst form of betrayal. While co-stars Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro get to strut and spume, Watts has to implode. She does it with a heartrending delicacy and power. To watch her here is to see America grieving...
CRIMES OF PASSION Rough sex for many species can range from brutal love bites to lethal lust. Male dung flies, mountain sheep and some frogs, in their zeal to procreate, will swarm, harass and harm females, sometimes fatally. For Hawaiian monk seals, where males outnumber females 3 to 1, mating violence is so serious that biologists are worried that the species may be endangered...
...your Notebook item on the Israeli Air Force pilots who have refused to participate in attacks on Palestinian militants hiding in populated areas of the West Bank and Gaza [Dec. 15]: Israel, in the face of brutal attacks on so many of its most vulnerable citizens, nevertheless remains a vibrant democracy subject to the rule of law and standards of morality. As your article noted, "Israeli law permits soldiers to disobey clearly illegal commands." The Israeli legal and moral systems stand in stark contrast to the policies of the Palestinian leadership, which not only fails to rein in the terrorists...