Word: heinousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Engelmayer had to grasp is that "exclusive homosexuality" is rarely, if ever, a matter of choice. A person's sexuality, whether environmentally or genetically determined, is a fixed and integral part of his or her personality from an early age Discrimination based on sexual orientation is as heinous as any other form of arbitrary discrimination. When such discrimination is advocated as a social good by an officer of the University, much more than freedom of speech is at stake for a large segment of the student body...
...commend the Med School for reviewing its policy towards letters of reference and add out voice to those already calling for adoption of the committee's code. Its swift acceptance is particularly important given the heinous nature of the incident from which the recommendation report stemmed--the case of the two Med School doctors who endorsed Dr. Arif Hussain, a convicted gang-rapist, for a Buffalo hospital...
...movie lets us down when it could be scariest. The cache of corpses the monster has stored looks like a rubber limb collection from a joke shop. And, most heinous of all its crimes, it succumbs to the nouveau-horror trend of the 1970's; rather than leave us feeling all was in jest, or solved, as Hitchcock or Agatha Christie would, the movie ends with one of those "You thought it was safe, huh?" twists which is now a DePalma cliche. By then, we've started rooting for the monster...
...that the leaders of the Khmer Rouge, who Sihanouk says indocrinated innocent youngsters into committing one of the most heinous crimes of the century, were insanely fanatical is perhaps an understatement. Khieu Samphan (who claims to have repented for his past sins and to have come to tolerate capitalism) has explained how it was necessary to incite fanatical hatred against the North Vietnamese in order "to unite our compatriots through the party, to bring our workers up to their highest level of productivity, and to make the yotheas (young soldiers) ardor and valor in combat even greater...
...possession of all guns, including rifles would make it harder for anyone, including criminals, to get weapons. If hand-guns are eliminated, crimes of passion will decrease; if all weapons are eliminated, even premeditated crime will go down. It is worth-while noting that many of the most heinous murders of our age, including the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, were committed with rifles. These men would not have been so easily killed if strict rifle controls had been in place...