Word: brutalize
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...Palestinian state and government—a conclusion which no one but fanatics on either side opposes. Fellow students have been entirely right to rally around a classmate who—far from any extremism—seems to have consistently advocated a peaceful solution to the brutal crisis in his homeland...
...SPDC’s human rights abuses continue to this day. Amnesty International believes that at least 1,200 political prisoners remain in detention, where they are denied adequate food, medical care and sanitation. The SPDC has been especially brutal in its persecution of ethnic minorities; needing land and labor, the SPDC has forcibly displaced members of these minority groups from their homes and compelled them to work without pay on construction projects or as porters for the army. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and the Shan Women’s Action Network have revealed that the SPDC...
...have class themes. The first to premiere, and the season's first confirmed hit, is The O.C. Ryan Atwood (Benjamin McKenzie) is a smart, poor kid taken in by the Cohen family of Newport Beach, Calif., after he gets in trouble with the law. Naturally, he finds beautiful girls, brutal rich boys and conniving adults. But The O.C. (on hiatus for baseball season; moves to Thursdays, 9 p.m. E.T., beginning Oct. 30) is more complex than its root-of-all-evil premise in a way that suits an economy in which there's plenty of anxiety for everyone. The dirty...
...Chen strides down the claustrophobic hallways of a Hong Kong tenement in the opening scenes of Infernal Affairs II (IA2), there's a whiff of De Niro menace?especially when Chen, his gun concealed in an envelope, shoots an elderly crime boss through a doorway grill in a brutal, abrupt hit. The shot is a conspicuous reference to De Niro's first murder in Godfather II, and it stakes the ground for IA2's epic?and violent?aspirations...
...threats and harassment. She disgusted the news media, who caricatured her with stereotypes and gossip. She embarrassed hundreds of Harvard students, who petitioned to banish her before plagiarism gave them any real grounds. And she indulged the rest of us, who reveled in schadenfreude when she finally met her brutal fate...