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...tips on how to play a “hard-nosed, controlling” officer “who’s bitter, and some of that bitterness comes out sideways on the job.” According to Dillon, the veteran police officer he tagged along with described brutal police officers as a relatively commonplace occurrence in the force—kicking feet out, twisting fingers together...
...group charged that the proceeds of Unocal’s pipeline project “fuel a brutal military dictatorship that has committed systematic rape, ethnic cleansing, and imprisonment of over a thousand political prisoners...
...Iraq has changed the climate in the Middle East by enabling the Iraqi people to defy the insurgency and prove the plausibility of democracy. Even more importantly, Bush shifted away from the U.S.’s previous policy of “pragmatic tolerance” of brutal autocratic regimes, which calcified established political regimes and stillborn reformist efforts. As a foreign policy, cynicism masquerading under the self-congratulatory name of “realism” doesn’t have the potential of Bush’s Wilson-esqe vision of freedom and democracy...
...brutal deaths tripped off a heated exchange between black leaders and government officials. The U.D.F. charged that Goniwe was the latest victim of right-wing death squads that, perhaps with government approval, have been responsible for the disappearance of 27 U.D.F. members since March and the deaths of six, including Goniwe and his three companions. The government promptly denied the charge, and suggested that Goniwe and his companions may have been the victims of "the internecine power struggle between opposing radical organizations...
...Pacific are flaring up again. These disputes are made more urgent by rising oil prices and China's booming energy demands. But the hostilities are due as much to historic frictions as to economic ones. Many South Koreans and Chinese contend that Japan has never fully repented for its brutal wartime past. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has only exacerbated tensions, they say, with his repeated trips to the Yasukuni Shrine?where military dead, including convicted war criminals, are honored?and with his failure to visit China since...