Word: brutalize
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Harvard encourages us to study philosophy, history and religion. But no “unpacking” of texts can prepare us for brutal, real experience. HIPJ claims to stand for and defend justice. Unfortunately, their understanding of the concept comes from a textbook or, more specifically, from the sourcebook of Professor Michael Sandel’s core class. Their attempt to apply their intangible version of justice to real, perilous threats warrants mockery. And their presumption of omniscience reflects the most criminal consequences of a university community as sheltered as ours...
...kinds of diverse backgrounds who had come to work in those beautiful buildings which represented some abstract future. They have put the entire world on edge. But they may have distanced sympathetic people away from their cause. They may even unwittingly have provided some unexpected justification for the brutal Israeli occupation of Arab lands. That is the law of unpredictable results in history...
...down massive destruction on Afghanistan if its ruling Taliban movement refuses to hand over Osama Bin Laden. Not that there's much left there to destroy. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld on Wednesday acknowledged that the Pentagon has struggled to identify significant targets in a country ravaged by two decades of brutal war. "Several countries have exhausted themselves pounding that country," Rumsfeld said. "There are not great things of value that are easy to deal with...
...Prince Charles will never be King B) a brutal cold snap in England C) how Prince Charles got his stigmata D) a woman giving Prince Charles money for breast-cancer research...
...been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe." Before they could get inside to read that sign last week, the pupils of Holy Cross - Catholic girls as young as four, none older than 11 - got a brutal lesson in belief. To reach school they had to run a gauntlet of abuse from their Protestant neighbors that began with insults and spit and escalated within days to bricks and blast bombs. Scores of police and soldiers were injured protecting the children. As the chaos spread, a Protestant school bus was stoned...