Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to writing poetry, Levins-Morales has also worked as an interpreter with Salvadoran refugees. She said one of the poems she read, about the brutal murder of a pregnant woman by the Salvadoran police, was based directly on a refugee's story...
There was little wonder why Theodore Streleski, 49, spent more than seven years in a California prison. What was troublesome was that he was a free man last week, still unrepentant over the brutal murder he had committed. Even more grotesque was his refusal to deny that he would kill again. Said he: "As I stand here now, I have no intention of killing again. On the other hand, I cannot predict the future...
...course, a hefty dose of down-on-the-farm skepticism. "Publicity," scoffed Illinois Corn Farmer Richard Layden. "That's all it is. And more for the performers than the farmers." Still, Farm Aid may be the one bright spot in what is shaping up to be a brutal year in the fields. Bumper crops will probably depress prices to record lows. As Willie says in a song composed for Farm Aid, "When you are farming for a living/ You make your money from the ground/ You take it to the bankers/ And there ain't enough to go around...
...South Africa-related investments. As the violence becomes more widespread, the body toll mounts, and the South African economy implodes, U.S. foreign policy towards the country is becoming increasingly irrelevant there. U.S. government sanctions against South Africa and corporate disinvestment from the country are concepts once abstracted from brutal reality. If that is the case, then Harvard's policy of "intensive dialogue" with portfolio companies operating in South Africa is twice abstracted from reality, now so irrelevant to South African conditions as to be utterly absurd. If Harvard continues to argue that the University's current policy can make...
Says White: "As a black reporter specializing in black America, I had long been aware of the plague of black-on-black homicide in the nation's ghettos. But it took two incidents to focus the story. One was the brutal murder in Chicago last year of a black high school basketball star, Ben Wilson, by two youths who seemed to have no motive at all. The other was the incredible burst of support from black New Yorkers for Bernhard Goetz, the white subway vigilante. He was a lightning rod for the fears that many blacks have of their...