Word: heinously
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Despots run amuck when the searchlight of responsibility ceases to shine. Without investigative journalism, injurious regimes can perpetrate the most heinous crimes against their own people. The government-owned daily newspapers in Zimbabwe, like radio and television, have long been propaganda organs for Mugabe...
...City cites safety, an important concern, as the motive for revoking their earlier decision. After the heinous night club fires in Chicago and East Warwick, R.I., overcrowding at parties should be a primary concern. A city can be liable for disregard of safety measures, as evidenced by the recent civil suits against East Warwick. However, limiting party hours does not solve the problem of overcrowding and could only prove to enhance it, as Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra has pointed out. Cutting down hours or the number of parties on a given night will only drive students to existing parties?...
Outspoken opponents and unswerving supporters of the death penalty continually claim that the main issue in the debate is a moral one: should the state execute somebody who has clearly committed a heinous crime? Participants are asked by both sides to forget all those embarrassing stories about inmates released from death row after the state almost sent them to an unearned early grave. We are supposed to assume that our criminal justice system operates, or can one day operate, with little or no error...
Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf followed a simple code: When life hands you lemons, insist that, despite the heinous lies of the infidels, they are in fact lemonade. In a war that produced no Scud Stud, al-Sahhaf emerged as a strange sort of cult icon, appearing daily before a bank of microphones in Baghdad to bark, "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" and "God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis...
With joy, according to Gitlin, comes originality. He applauds the 1999 globalization protests in Seattle when Teamsters and Greens, dressed as sea turtles, marched together. He eschews purely hateful protest, no matter how heinous the injustice...