Word: brutalize
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...lapse, the current Bush White House resumed this symbolic tribute to the Old South. But one of the organizations connected to the ceremony is the Sons of Confederate Veterans, whose "Chief Aide-de-Camp" is Richard T. Hines, a politically active lobbyist from South Carolina. In that state's brutal 2000 Republican primary, Hines reportedly helped finance tens of thousands of letters blasting Bush rival John McCain for failing to support the flying of the Confederate flag over the state capitol. Hines declined to comment. --By Michael Weisskopf and Karen Tumulty
After another brutal year in Chechnya, where hundreds of thousands of civilians and over 10,000 Russian soldiers have died in eight years of bloody conflict, six Chechens have won a potentially significant victory over the Russian armed forces. Their triumph came not on the streets of Chechnya's devastated capital, Grozny, nor in traumatized villages like Shaami-Yurt or Katyr-Yurt, but some 3,000 km away, at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. For the first time, the court agreed to hear lawsuits brought by ordinary Chechens against the Russian military under the European Convention...
What could possibly turn kids this young into brutal killers? The recipe for violence is almost certainly a mix of bad genes and a bad environment, and the evidence is strong that the recipe is cooked up very early in life. Until about a decade ago, most experts assumed that it was a violent or impoverished upbringing that led to violent adults. "We're depraved," says one of the gang members in West Side Story, "on account of we're deprived." Indeed, studies had suggested a correlation between a harsh childhood and later criminality. The link was strongest for those...
...Kamchatka's economy has collapsed in the wake of perestroika , as subsidies from the central government have dried up. Corruption is rampant, with poachers depleting the region's vast fisheries. Nature reserves are under threat from mining and energy projects. Electricity is frequently shut down, even during the brutal winters. As a park ranger noted while guiding us through the thermal springs of the peninsula's Valley of Geysers, "This is the only place in Kamchatka where they can't cut off your hot water...
...registered charity. Abu Hamza has ignored a ban issued last spring accusing him of using his position to deliver extremist rhetoric. The Charity Commission says he must answer complaints this week about "extreme and political" statements. French impatience with Britain comes from the country's long experience of the brutal terrorism of Algerian organizations like the Armed Islamic Group (G.I.A.) and its offshoot, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (G.S.P.C.). The G.S.P.C.'s gory combat videos, full of throat slitting, are on sale at radical mosques. Both groups were founded after 1992 elections were canceled by Algeria's military...