Word: cruel
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...only the compassionate individuals who worked to pass this law but also the vast majority of U.S. citizens--nearly 80% of whom, according to a Zogby poll, support an end to foie-gras production. More than a dozen countries and the state of California have passed laws prohibiting this cruel practice. Far from being frivolous, Chicago's law codifies the humane values that we as a society purport to believe...
...mother on the day she was abducted. "My mother always used to say that we should never part ways angry," she said during her television interview, "because something could happen to her or me and we'd never see each other again." But in the aftermath of such cruel captivity, seeing each other again comes with its own challenges...
Whenever countries wage war, the intention is to kill and maim as many people as possible, to terrorize the population and destroy infrastructure. It is insane, wrong and cruel, but humanity has still not learned. Evelyn Schindler Montreal...
...days after the Beslan disaster, Putin made a statement that was to reshape this country drastically. Russia was at war with terrorists, Putin said, invoking "hidden enemies" and the threat to this country's integrity. He pledged to mobilize the nation to fight back in "the total and cruel and full-scale war," and to launch an efficient crisis-management system, "which will include principally new approaches to law enforcement agencies...
...problems became so difficult to handle largely because no one was to blame and no one thing was wrong: no one was trying to be hurtful or cruel; we just had different work habits and expectations. For a month we tried to compromise and tiptoe around the issues. Our rooming conflicts, however, began to affect profoundly the ability of our struggling roommate to work, sleep and coexist with the other four of us. Five young women who should have been friends barely spoke, rarely brought friends over, and could not feel at home in their own room...