Word: brutalize
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...future - say, the middle of this century. Thirty-some years before, Salter's wife had died and he was left to raise his four-year-old son Bernard, who had begun life as an angel ("You were the most beautiful baby everyone said"). But the father was neglectful, sometimes brutal to the boy; Bernard grew wild, sick. In anger and cunning, Salter took advantage of the new technology and had his son cloned: cloned as a new baby, the precious Bernard before he was scarred by his father's misuse. It took Salter a while to realize that the company...
...easy for the Church, with the political power that it wields in Los Reyes, to conquer both the village news and Amaro’s personal integrity in one brutal swoop. Its power can deflect responsibility and blame from its own stainless purity, to channel it into those less financially and politically equipped, and to find the innocent guilty. The only person who has any respect for truth and justice is, ironically, a journalist: Amelia’s ex-boyfriend, son of a liberal “heretic,” who exposes the sins of the fathers...
...Many of my readers read my books three or four times, because my novels are easy to read," Murakami says. "But the stories are not easy to understand." In A Wild Sheep Chase and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, for example, he examines complex issues, such as Japan's brutal colonialism in the first half of the 20th century, while also portraying his characters' struggles to reconcile their hopes and fears with the lives they lead. In any case, popularity doesn't shame him: "Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership...
...about as easy as winning the War on Drugs, but that hasn’t stopped the United States and 43 other nations from forging ahead with their plans. Conflict diamonds are those precious but sinister stones that no one with a good conscience can buy. Their procurement is brutal; their sale finances war. And last week, a group of nations agreed to implement the Kimberly Process, a system that will put an end to the trade of conflict diamonds, at least in theory...
President Yoweri Museveni and the NRA are currently engaged in a brutal conflict with the Lord’s Resistance Army in north of Uganda...