Word: heinousness
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...Although this isn't the first time little old ladies have been accused of heinous crimes - in 1988, Dorothea Puente was nicknamed "the black widow of Sacramento" when the 60-year-old was convicted of killing three boarders and then continuing to cash their pension checks - some elements of the Los Angeles duo's alleged crimes shocked even hardened veterans. "Female killers operating for profit by taking out insurance policies on their victims are working one of the oldest scams in the book," says Michael D. Kelleher, who co-wrote Murder Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer. "What makes this...
...that regime's policies. It has been said that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Whereas officials in Washington have at least repeatedly spoken out against Pyongyang in no uncertain words, those in Seoul have exhibited criminal indifference to heinous and unnecessary suffering. Good people doing nothing? They cannot even be called good. Hancho C. Kim Seoul Obsolete Monarchy Re your thought-provoking report "Battle of Wills" [May 1] on the political turmoil in Nepal: The country is one of the poorest in the world, and its people have suffered...
...source of revenue for the Khartoum government and is used to fund the Janjaweed militias that are committing genocide in Darfur. This oil provides a clear and direct chain of causation between Harvard’s monetary interests and the most heinous of injustices and human rights abuses. Indeed, it would be difficult to justify the same link if the firm in question dealt with almost any other commodity besides...
After the initial breaking of the story, many felt that the U.S. must actively work to dissociate itself from those who allowed such atrocities to take place. Its citizens expected their leaders to act quickly and decisively to reaffirm that the U.S. would neither practice nor tolerate such a heinous breed of behavior and, moreover, prove to a skeptical global community that this was not the true face of America...
...bells] kind of make me hate God,” she says. “They ruin my spirituality. It’s horrible and heinous. I feel bad for anyone who has to ring them. They are the purveyors of a misery that never ends...