Word: brutalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year, fatigue played a big role in hampering the Crimson's performance. Double-shift practices in February, coupled with a lack of team depth, wore the Crimson out early, and made a difficult schedule even more brutal...
...disturbing double standard exists in the Bush administration's decision to send troops into Kuwait last year and its present position toward the fleeing Haitians. Iraq's aggression merited definitive condemnation by the U.S. government. The brutal conduct of the Haitian dictatorship against its own people deserves similar censure...
...prisoners. The obvious animosity between the inmates is contrasted with their joint contempt for the prison administration. The Jewish and Arab leaders come to the realization that the jail wardens thrive on the inter-ethnic competition that they intentionally foster. Arnon Zadok and Muhamed Bakri are wellcast as the brutal leaders of the two inmate groups. Their rivalry climaxes during a bloody fight, after which they join together in a hunger strike...
Beyond the Walls asks the vital question of who the real enemy is. While the plot runs a typical route, Barbash succeeds in portraying many of the brutal realities of prison life. Israeli pop singer Boaz Sharabi makes a cameo appearance as an incarcerated musician. The moving film received an Academy Award nomination for the Best Foreign Film...
...story goes--falsely, cynically, cruelly. The U.S. military transfers the repatriates to the famously brutal Haitian military, which photographs and fingerprints each refugee beneath an Orwellian "Welcome to Haiti" sign. Perhaps the Bush administration believes that the Cedras regime will use the prints and photos to make invitations for a "Welcome to Haiti" party for the repatriates. This belief would explain why the administration slowed the return of refugees--not to assuage human rights concerns, but to accommodate a Cedras regime which needed more time to process bodies...