Word: callously
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...callous as Saddam, the losses of a few planes and missile batteries, a factory and a total of 50 casualties are pinpricks. But they were enough to unsettle America's allies. France, Britain, Russia, Syria, Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia all expressed concern...
...During the campaign, he denounced as "callous" President Bush's policy of returning refugees to Haiti. Last week, fearing that his statement would produce a new flood of boat people heading for the U.S., Clinton switched again and embraced the Bush approach, at least for the moment...
...conversions, which revived the lingering impression of Clinton as a "pander bear" who would say anything to get elected. His aides backed away from a promise to trim the White House staff 25%; plans to present an economic blueprint on Jan. 21 were postponed six weeks. After condemning as "callous" the Bush policy of turning back boatloads of Haitians, including those with valid asylum claims, Clinton had to reverse himself when he found out that as many as 10,000 Haitians were preparing to brave dangerous seas once he was sworn in. Last week he embraced the Bush policy...
This was a year that disproved the truism that scenes of tragedy all blur together, that photographs of famine in Biafra and Ethiopia, Sudan and then Somalia just pile on in layers, forming a callous around the conscience. Brought face to face one more time with starvation, the world did not just shrug. And pictures gave other conflicts their own unforgettable faces. Some of the video-game visuals from last year's fighting in the Persian Gulf were strangely antiseptic, an invitation to forget that war is the mass production of individual suffering. The photographs from Bosnia-Herzegovina, where...
Hopefully, this mistake is due more to poor journalism than to a writer or editor's callous disregard for the individual accomplishments of Mexican-Americans. Even if this is the case, I find it appalling that Crimson editors continually fail to catch blatant errors of fact...