Word: brutalize
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Brokaw said that many people have told him that his book has helped to bring veterans' families together and has encouraged former soldiers to talk about their often brutal battle experiences for the first time...
After World War II, the Soviet Union invited all its emigres to come home and help rebuild the motherland. Most of them were instantly killed or sent to the Gulag, victims of Stalinist paranoia. This complex, heartbreaking film recounts the brutal struggle of one couple to survive. Oleg Menchikov plays a doctor, valuable to the state, who gets along by pretending to go along. Sandrine Bonnaire is his French-born wife, on whom the state visits its worst depredations. But East-West is more than their story; it is a great, gray epic of a society wasted and terrorized...
...buildings for some length of time. Though men used to comprise the vast majority of the prison population, women are now the fastest growing group of prisoners.) He will have minimal contact with members of his family and his community. His living environment will be chaotic, overcrowded, noisy, brutal. Typically, he will not be educated--though more than half of all prisoners are functionally illiterate, only seven percent of those who need it receive literacy education. He will not receive drug treatment--though more than 950,000 federal and state prisoners need drug treatment, fewer than 150,000 received...
...only does he get away with the crimes, but he can't get anyone to believe him when he confesses. This is partly because his friends are as vacant as he is; they talk but don't listen. And also because Patrick, for all his brutal truth telling, is an unreliable narrator. You see, he is mad--so mad, he probably committed the murders only in his head. Which still makes him one sick yuppie...
Most police officers are not racist. A civilized society must place a high priority on law enforcement for reasons of deterrence and justice. But these decisions threaten the protections inherent in the Constitution and leaves all citizens vulnerable to the abuses of an aberrant--but brutal--minority of law enforcement officials. The Constitution only protects us from these abuses if the courts respect its spirit...