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...problem is that just as Japanese soldiers once dehumanized Chinese, Beijing's propaganda often paints Japanese as pure monsters. Grade school textbooks recount the callous brutality of Japanese soldiers in graphic detail, and credit the Communist Party with defeating Japan. (Another reason for Japan's surrender, it says, was the atomic bombs dropped by the U.S.) More moderate voices are silenced. A 2000 film by one of China's leading directors, Jiang Wen, remains banned because it depicted friendliness between a captured Japanese soldier and Chinese villagers. Although the film showed plenty of brutality, censors ruled that "Devils...
...inappropriate. The House’s decision to kill Romney’s death penalty bill was commendable but far from unexpected. Public opinion among commonwealth residents has turned increasingly against the death penalty in recent years, and nearly two-thirds of the representatives ended up voting against this callous practice. Two separate bills to reinstate the death penalty had already been rejected by the House in the past eight years—first in 1997, and then again in 2001. In short, the people’s will on the matter was abundantly clear, and there was no need...
...vignettes may be understandably mislabeled as callous, since they boldly tackle sensitive issues, presenting a brutally satirical view of what Director Kia D. Alexander ’08 calls “black oppression stereotypes through time...
...calmly through the exit of the local polling station to a waiting car. The bleeding 54-year-old former physician and father of two, who had just voted in Italy's center-left coalition primary, died minutes later at the same Locri hospital where he had once worked. The callous nature of the murder marked it unmistakably as a professional hit by Calabria's powerful crime syndicate, the 'Ndrangheta, a word of Greek origin meaning courage or loyalty. The message was just as clear: We're in charge here. The gangland execution of the respected Vice President of the Regional...
...deserves high praise. His is the first voice out of Harvard to speak out and question why the University with its billions is being miserly in donating to the millions left homeless. Such an uncharitable attitude from the world’s richest academic institution only betrays a callous bias against people far off and thus out of Harvard’s radar...