Word: brutalize
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Nepal's 12-year-old democracy is on the ropes. A string of corrupt governments has failed to tackle the country's poverty, illiteracy and unemployment. A brutal Maoist rebellion has claimed 5,000 lives, including 3,000 since last November. And on Friday the elected government got a stark vote of no confidence: the country's constitutional monarch King Gyanendra?who took the throne 16 months ago after the Crown Prince massacred most of the royal family?went on national TV to say he was firing 'incompetent' Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, postponing next month's parliamentary elections...
...funny mix of theater, trading floor and reunion. You can see Cabinet ministers getting buttonholed by irate local officials or chatting amiably about former Prime Minister John Major's sex scandal as they prop up the bar the night before their big speeches. Once the scene of brutal factional brawls, the conference in Blair's era has been systematically drained of strife. So this year two things were striking: that Blair came in for something of a rough ride, and that old-fashioned oratory, from Blair and then his special guest Bill Clinton, mesmerized the dissenters. Like any good...
...from Michael Mann. In the 1980s, Mann changed the look of the cop show, first with Miami Vice, then (and more to his credit) with the hard-bitten serial drama Crime Story. RHD is police drama at its most minimal: a brusque L.A. detective (Tom Sizemore) investigates brutal acts by bad people--no back story, no moral, no attempts at uplift. What set it apart are the haunting music and the disorienting, bravura visuals--sometimes several minutes without dialogue--that turn L.A. from a neutral backdrop into a jumpy, polyglot place of seedy beauty. It's an art film disguised...
...army commanders to buy a safe corridor into Chechnya. Marsho is Mazayev's first feature film. Since leaving Grozny six years ago, he has had little contact with his family, but says that his elder brother is slowly recovering from his time in one of the Russian "filtration camps" - brutal improvised prisons where, human rights groups say, torture, abuse and extrajudicial killings are common. Funding for Marsho came in part through Akhmed Zakayev, before the war a theater director and now principal deputy to the guerrillas' titular leader, Aslan Maskhadov. Other money, Mazayev says, came from charities in Turkey, which...
Israel is the only country that has openly confronted the difficult issue of protecting the civil liberties of the ticking bomb terrorist. The Israeli Supreme Court recently ruled that despite the potential benefits of employing non-lethal torture to extract information, the tactic is illegal. Brutal torture, including lethal torture, is commonplace in nearly every other Middle Eastern and Muslim country. Indeed, American authorities sometimes send suspects to Egypt, Jordan and the Philippines precisely because they know that they will be tortured in those countries...