Word: deathly
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...foxhunting and showed something of that merciless instinct in his investigative journalism, which he devoted to exposing miscarriages of justice. His book 10 Rillington Place inspired the posthumous pardon of Timothy Evans, a young Englishman wrongly executed for murder in 1950, and hastened Britain's abolition of the death penalty. The Airman and the Carpenter, Kennedy's exploration of the kidnapping and killing of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby, failed to achieve a similar result in the U.S., but it raised doubts about the culpability of Bruno Hauptmann, who was sent to the electric chair for the crime. The widower...
...break trips to Cancun—a recent trip to Mexico proved that the drug problem producing this violence is unavoidable even in the “safest” parts of the country. After only a week, my family stumbled upon a murder scene and learned of the death of a close friend at the hands of La Familia. A recent law to legalize possession of small amounts of drugs in Mexico is a step in the right direction, but much more remains to be done...
...Marat/Sade,” Peter Weiss’ violent, absurd, revolutionary drama, is both a wonder and headache. It’s a play within a play of the most perverse sort—the death of a radical written by a libertine and performed by lunatics; a thick weave of freedom and surveillance, change and identity brought together with a tense, gripping energy (and the occasional musical interlude). But it’s also a drama about events which took place 200 years ago driven by theories of theater half that age. One look at the show?...
...tone of the debate, the town halls, the "death panels," the tea parties - did you worry that things were becoming too extreme? I worried more that Congress wasn't listening to people who are very angry and frustrated. I thought that the smug, condescending attitude that many members of Congress had toward people who attended town halls was the very reason that the town halls were getting so much momentum. There is a tone deafness by members of Congress who breathe the rarified air of the Beltway and tend to think that they, in fact, are getting a full whiff...
...August vote was not the 1 million-plus fake votes that were cast mostly for Karzai but the 12 million-plus votes claimed by the Taliban. No one actually voted for the Taliban, of course, and its call for a boycott of the poll was enforced by threat of death. But whether out of fear, political choice or sheer indifference, 12 million voters - representing 70% of the electorate, compared with just 30% in 2004 - stayed away from the ballot stations. A runoff election was expected to see an even smaller turnout. (See pictures of Afghanistan's mock election...