Word: brutalize
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...Consider the brutal pertinence (boomers, anyone?) in Chapter 30:11-12: "There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness...
...throughout the '90s as Yeltsin compromised their strategic interests in exchange for financial handouts from the West. The seditious grumbling over NATO's expansion onto Russia's eastern European doorstep reached a crescendo during last year's Kosovo campaign. President Putin built his election campaign around the military's brutal assault on Chechnya - a hapless attempt to restore its lost honor - and vowed to restore Russian power. Despite such humiliations as the Kursk submarine disaster, Putin has set about modernizing his armed forces by cutting their size while increasing their budget. At the same time, he's adopted an overtly...
...talked for a long while that day, trying to come to terms with a horrible loss. Life is so unjust, so brutal. It passes so quickly. Now for a whole community it just got a lot harder...
Castano's revenge has been brutal. In 1990 the military and police raided a Castano family ranch and dug up 24 decomposed corpses, some showing signs of torture. Fear of AUC vengeance is one reason at least 1 million peasants fled their homes during the past decade. "This is an irregular war, and the enemy is a military target, whether in uniform or in civilian clothes," says Castano. "When this is over, let them judge me before an international tribunal--but I want the guerrilla leaders and the Colombian army there beside me in the dock." He insists that...
Penry stands at the center of a debate that bedevils even some supporters of the death penalty: Should the state execute people who have committed brutal acts but have the mentality of children? "While no one minimizes the severity of the crime," Penry's attorney, Robert Smith, wrote in his appeal to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, "because of his mental retardation and family background, it is not possible that Johnny Paul Penry is among the most culpable offenders for whom the ultimate punishment is reserved...