Word: brutalize
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...government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani. Disillusionment with the infighting of that regime led him to switch over, briefly, to the Taliban, which once tried to make him its U.N. ambassador, a post he declined. But Karzai, an Islamic moderate, soon turned against the Taliban's stringencies, especially its brutal restrictions on women, and returned to Pakistan. Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Karl Inderfurth, a friend of Karzai's, says that after the murder of his father, Karzai approached Washington with plans for leading resistance to the Taliban. "It did seem like a mission impossible," says Inderfurth, "because...
...Still determined, Xiaowei visited a Shanghai surgeon who promised the seemingly impossible: to add 7 cm to her height. The leg surgery would be simple, he said, if brutal. He would saw her shin bones, affix metal braces with 16 steel needles to her legs, then slowly stretch the newly forming bone tissue into a longer pair of gams. A steep $11,000 later, Xiaowei found herself in a spartan Shanghai hospital room surveying her scarred but elongated legs. Four months in the dingy ward have left her stir-crazy, but Xiaowei shows off limbs already stretched...
...Muslim holy site with 1,000 armed soldiers. But hatred toward Sharon stems primarily from his role in the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacres, which left 2,000 women and children dead. While most Western newspapers suffer from a convenient amnesia when it comes to Sharon’s brutal past, Palestinians will not easily forget...
This is why so many athletes are able to make more money as adults; they have learned from an early age how to budget their time and do what is necessary academically despite the brutal time and physical constraints. Intelligence and excellence are not defined by high school SAT scores or Academic Indexes, but by continued performance on the highest level possible. If they were not smart enough to attend Harvard, athletes would most certainly fail out more frequently. Instead, they are able to achieve at an acceptable level with academics their second or third concern, not their first like...
...CHUANZHI Making computers was not the first step on Liu Chuanzhi's long march to success, but it may well be the one that matters most. Liu, 57, survived China's brutal Cultural Revolution and rode the winds of reform to a government concession distributing IBM PCs in the late 1980s. Then he persuaded the government to let him build PCs. He's CEO of LEGEND COMPUTER, the most profitable PC maker in a market in which sales will grow 25% this year. Liu says he learned it all from Hewlett-Packard and IBM, but he aims to best them...