Word: brutalizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to say that I was pessimistic from the start. Any sensible analysis of the case has to start with a brutal but undeniable fact: people eat pigeons...
...simply reporting historical fact: nothing was ruled out in Dirty Soccer as played at the Hale H. Cook school in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Golden Age of Dirty Soccer. There is such a thing as brutal competition within limits (e.g., the campaign for the Republican nomination) and such a thing as all-out war (e.g., the endgame in the battle between Charles and Diana...
...access to the Internet each month, or unlimited access for $19.95 a month, on its newly announced Worldnet access service. Suddenly, the right flat rate and the right number of phone lines were in the same place, and the entire Internet-service industry seemed on the verge of a brutal shake-out. At week's end AOL's share price dropped 15%, from 53 7/8 to 45 3/4, while the stock of Netcom Online Communications, a leading provider of direct Internet access, fell more than 13%, from 28 1/4 to 24 1/2. Jacques Gauchey, a new-media consultant...
...democracy movement in Burma is not dead, but it is substantially weakened by the imprisonment of many of its leaders and eight years of brutal repression. Aung San Suu Kyi herself, the charismatic woman who has led the peaceful struggle for democracy, could use donations of money or supplies. Refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border need medical supplies in order to treat the casualties of SLORC shelling. Student groups in exile need funds to help raise awareness worldwide about the plight of the Burmese people...
When Madeleine K. Albright, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, passionately decried Cuba's downing of the unarmed Cessna planes, most of the nation probably took her indignation at face value. However, if one considers America's long and bloody history of sponsoring brutal dictatorships and illegal invasions in the Caribbean and Latin America, her outrage seems ridiculous. Of course, two wrongs don't make a right--just because the United States trained, armed and directed death squads in countries such as Guatemala for half a century doesn't mean that it cannot criticize Cuba. But until the United...