Word: combatative
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...Ophuls; Meyer, with his brisk shearing of every shot to milliseconds, was the redneck Resnais. Metzger was the elegant gent on a leisurely prowl of the haut monde, as fascinated by the d?cor of a bedroom as by the woman on the silk sheets; Meyer was the combat photographer getting snapshots of the carnal carnage that thrilled and amused...
...long-term housing nor the counseling that the former residents of the homeless camps so desperately need. There is no denying the camps were unpleasant, but removing them without making plans to address the larger problem of persistent homelessness is as archaic a remedy as bleeding a patient to combat an infection...
...itself the Pattani Islam Mujahadeen grabbed attention by posting the bounty for cop killings. But the Mujahadeen have never made any political demands, and some doubt they even exist. Vairoj says they do, and claims he made contact with them in the jungle. A few, he says, have received combat training in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dangerous as this group may be, however, almost no one believes there are enough Mujahadeen in Thailand to have wreaked all this mayhem...
...argument from Zhou Yuanyuan as she scrambles up one of the steeper reaches of the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing during a recent weekend. Decked out in $80 hiking boots and combat fatigues, Zhou and her boyfriend, co-owners of a real estate company, have turned to physically challenging day trips to stay fit. "Our business has been good, but our stress levels are high," says Zhou, 23. "We've been eating too much and gaining weight. We find we must exercise?otherwise we just can't perform at work." The government is contributing to the cause...
...facing the death penalty, Eurico Guterres doesn't look anxious. Sitting in a steamy Jakarta courthouse, a ceiling fan whirring overhead, he appears to have given more consideration to choosing his outfit?combat fatigues smartly pressed, a red and white scarf tied fastidiously around his neck?than to saving his own skin. Guterres is a central figure in the first ever human-rights trials held on Indonesian soil, a highly public attempt to account and atone for the carnage that occurred in East Timor in 1999 when the Indonesian military, in conjunction with local militias, viciously turned on supporters...