Word: inhumanity
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...crime is one. of most inhuman character, in which the kidnappers are attempting to capitalize one of the dearest human emotions--the love of parents for their children."--Rome Giornale d'Italia...
...Gonzales asked the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel for an opinion on the definition of illegal interrogation methods. On Aug. 1, 2002, Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee sent Gonzales the following guidance: the President is within his legal limits to permit his surrogates to inflict "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment on prisoners without violating strictures against torture. For an act of abuse to be torture, the interrogator must be inflicting pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death." The definition of illegal torture...
...knows if that large mission can be accomplished? Hotel Rwanda is, finally, only a movie. That said, however, it is a powerful portrait of a slightly befuddled man who, when inhuman demands were placed on him, found within himself an unexpected response. In ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the events, Rwandan President Paul Kagame offered to come to the aid of any country in which genocide was taking place. He has sent a small contingent to Darfur to help restore stability after clashes between the government and rebel forces. Courage, Winston Churchill once said, is the virtue that makes...
...made you realize you’re not rooting for something inhuman, but something that cares you care about them,” said Luke M. Messac ’08, who was born in Massachusetts but now lives in New York...
...PRESENTED A COMPLEX AND difficult topic in a one-sided, simplistic fashion. Throughout the article there was an anti-immigrant and inhuman tone: referring to Mexicans crossing the border as "illegals," as if they lacked a right to exist (alternative terms include undocumented people and noncitizens) and referring to "invaders" and "intruders," as if those crossing the border are coming here to take away what is ours rather than to work at jobs for which, even as TIME points out, employers want them. Coming across the border is a long, dangerous and at times deadly journey. People risk their lives...