Word: brutalize
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Congratulations to Iraq on its freedom from a brutal dictator. We Afghans share the feelings of Iraqis. We have suffered similar hardships at the hands of the Taliban and terrorists in our country. We feel great sorrow for Iraqi civilian casualties, but one cannot obtain freedom without sacrifice. We hope the U.S. and others in the world community will fulfill the commitments they made to the Afghans and Iraqis and will bring peace, stability and prosperity to both countries. BASHAAR KHAN Jalalabad, Afghanistan...
...After all, it was not for failing to topple a brutal dictator that U.S. officials chided the United Nations, but for failing to respond to an imminent WMD danger. To that end, Secretary of State Colin Powell presented a detailed indictment of Iraq at the UN Security Council on February 5. But so far, little evidence has emerged to back up some of his allegations. Powell had warned, for example, that the Iraqi military had, last November, dispersed rocket launchers and warheads containing biological weapons to various locations in Western Iraq, where they were hidden in palm groves and moved...
Although the communists and their nationalist predecessors under Chiang Kai-shek considered their parties to be fiercely opposed, their practice of exterminating dissent and enforcing a unitary party line made them equally brutal enemies of the people. Nationalists killed well over 10 million Chinese before the communists took their place, slaughtering and starving far more...
...driven to do. Their self-hatred and denial as Jews, interwoven with their singular affirmation of faith— “shema Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad,”- Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One— is a stark and brutal statement that stuns...
...island is now a motel, the kind of motel so ancient and creaky that one suspects Norman Bates might leap out from behind any of its murky corners. A brutal storm has flooded the single road that leads away from the motel, so various marooned travelers start checking in one by one. They include a high-strung actress (Rebecca De Mornay) and her resourceful limo driver (John Cusack), a short-fused policeman (Ray Liotta) escorting a murderous prisoner (Jake Busey) and a high-priced hooker escaping Las Vegas to tend to an orange grove in Florida (Amanda Peet...