Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central question in the Demjanjuk case is that of identity. No one doubts that the so-called Ivan the Terrible, a Treblinka guard, committed some of the most savage crimes of the war, including cutting flesh from live human beings. The question is, are Demjanjuk and Ivan the Terrible the same man? The Israeli prosecutors say yes, but their case is tenuous at best...
...call for no new taxes disappointed many House liberals and provoked open concern among advocates for human services, environmental protection, affordable housing and other programs that depend on state spending...
...clear priorities, the President offered a clutter of programs, almost all marginal adjustments in the status quo. By awkwardly trying to match the concerns of a liberal Democrat with the means of a parsimonious Republican, Bush ended up with an incoherent philosophy that might be dubbed Reaganomics with a human face...
...being a pretty depressing human endeavor, has never been a favorite subject for network entertainment. The Viet Nam War, being pretty depressing even as wars go, would seem to be nearly untouchable. Not only was there too much R-rated action (drug abuse, massacres of civilians) but the story had an unhappy ending. Such recent movies as Platoon and Full Metal Jacket could immerse their audience in the muck and moral quicksand for a couple of hours and then let go. But TV series must keep viewers coming back week after week, adhering to standards of "family entertainment" along...
...years the U.S. has assessed human rights abuses around the world. But never has a friend figured as prominently as one has this year, when twelve pages of the State Department's survey were devoted to the "substantial increase in human rights violations" by Israel in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The report sketched a picture of excessive force by the Israeli army, resulting in "many avoidable deaths," against the Palestinian uprising. This account of shootings, beatings, imprisonment and deportation is the most critical U.S. review ever of Israeli actions in the territories...