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...hospitals in 1991. Three-quarters of the infants tested positive for drugs at birth. They had no relatives, only nurses; no world beyond the ward. Some stayed in the hospitals so long they learned to walk there. Most were doomed to an early entry into America's brutal foster-care system, and in the meantime each baby's maintenance cost...
...bodyguard of U.S. figure-skating champion Tonya Harding and two other men were arrested for the brutal assault on Harding's rival Nancy Kerrigan in Detroit. According to his lawyer, bodyguard Shawn Eric Eckardt told investigators that he had taken part in the plot to injure Kerrigan but denied being "smart enough" to plan...
PERU. President Alberto Fujimori is credited with knocking the wind out of the brutal Shining Path insurgency by capturing or killing its leadership, but 1,692 people were killed in guerrilla and counterinsurgency violence last year. Terrorism caused $1 billion worth of damage...
Eventually, the Jews are moved from the Krakow Ghetto to a Nazi labor camp run by Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes). Goeth is a singularly unsettling figure, educated and refined but at the same time brutal, merciless and animalistic. Looking down into the camp from his villa, Goeth casually shoots anyone who crosses his line of sight. He is in love with his Jewish maid (Embeth Davidtz), but he is ashamed of it, and so he beats...
...million Ukrainians by Stalin's bureaucrats in 1932-33. Not many Americans will see this picture, which opened last week in one New York City theater; stark, iconic, black-and- white Ukrainian movies, especially when their subject is "the hidden Holocaust," have limited mall appeal. But in its meticulously brutal imagery, in its theme of humanity enslaved and justice outraged, in its Manichaean categorizing of people as holy victims or soulless villains, Famine-33 has important similarities to Hollywood-financed pictures coming this Christmas to a 'plex near...