Word: brutalize
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Many Europeans aren't convinced that Saddam Hussein really poses a graver threat now than the one they have learned to live with since the Gulf War. They feel Bush's indictment of Saddam's brutal character and sins is old news and want to know: What's so dangerous about Iraq today that only war can save us from? Most don't share Bush's obsessive conviction that he already "knows" Saddam Hussein is hiding stockpiles of illicit biological and chemical weapons and is close to obtaining a nuclear one. Of course, many Europeans suspect Saddam has dangerous stuff...
...most agonizing choices a patient with a life-threatening illness has to make is when to put quality of life ahead of length of life. Case in point: chemotherapy after breast-cancer surgery. Although the side effects of chemo (among them nausea, fatigue and hair loss) can be brutal, the treatment does work: patients who go through it will, on average, live longer. So I was surprised to read in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine that only 29% of breast-cancer patients actually take their doctor's advice and get chemotherapy after surgery. Even more striking...
JEAN-CLAUDE DUVALIER Haiti He used the Tontons Macoutes, a brutal secret-police force, to exercise control. Now Baby Doc lives comfortably in Paris, worshipping voodoo and studying solar energy...
...from the North (which is controlled by a Taliban-like Islamic government) carry out slave raids in the ethnically black South, destroying villages, killing thousands of men, and kidnapping their women and children. Victims are forced to march north for days with little food. Any resistance is met with brutal physical punishment or death. Once the newly-enslaved blacks arrive in the North, they are forced to convert to Islam and set to work. Boys are made to tend animals while women and girls are used as domestic workers and concubines. Slaves who fail to perform their tasks to their...
...string of brutal cases has sparked growing fear. A cement-truck driver named Hua Ruizhuo was executed last year for picking up prostitutes near the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in Beijing, handcuffing them in his van, raping them and dumping their bodies in rubbish heaps around the city. He killed 14 women. Around the same time, police in China's northeastern province of Jilin captured Piao Yongzhi, who murdered an undisclosed number of longhaired women, keeping their tresses in bags at his house. He flayed the face of one victim, cooked...