Word: mercilessness
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...reporter Daniel Pearl shocked me [WORLD, March 4], but it also angered me. I have read the complaints voiced by foreign governments and various organizations over the treatment of the Afghan war detainees at Camp X-Ray. Yet Pearl's death is an example of the unspeakable evil and merciless brutality of the terrorists. His murder should not be forgotten if others once again question the U.S.'s motives and actions in the fight against terror. DOUGLAS JORDAN Dunwoody...
Balk’s etchings are stark and striking, reflecting the crudely innocent style of the women’s drawings. Her themes are also merciless in their truth and unrelenting in their exposure of cruelty. There is “Send Them Home to Die,” done in etching, aquatint, and softground, in which women with broken bodies walk single-file down a hill, perhaps to death, perhaps to hell. But their lives are already a sort of hell...
...European embassies report a rise in the number of Israelis applying for passports in the past year--but outrage at Palestinian terror is boundless. Polls show that more than 40% of Israelis want the army to retake land held by the Palestinian Authority. A majority still supports Sharon's merciless campaign against Arafat and suspected Palestinian terrorists. Few Israelis see an end to the violence, and most are prepared to keep fighting. Last week Sharon tried to boost public spirits by recounting the country's achievements and resilience. In the understatement of the year, he added, "These are not easy...
...woman scratched the paint on 10 cars parked along the streets of Hamburg, Germany's freewheeling port city. The woman found herself before a judge named Ronald Barnabas Schill, who promptly sentenced her to two-and-a-half years in prison for her vandalism. Stunned, newspapers branded Schill Judge Merciless, and the sobriquet stuck through a sheaf of draconian sentences. Trading on his law-and-order image, Schill organized his own political party, the Law and Order Offensive, and won a stunning 19.4% of the vote in municipal elections last year. Now he is taking his party to two other...
...Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. But that election takes place on Sept. 22, the same day as German national elections, and the party could be swamped by national parliamentary campaigns. Another problem for Schill: the crime issue has little impact in eastern Germany, where unemployment is the main issue. Judge Merciless may have to find a new theme...