Word: mistreating
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...three Gao siblings: Gao Weihong (Zhang Jingchu), the rebellious sister who wants to become a paratrooper and is constantly at war with forces determined to keep her grounded; her slow-witted older brother Gao Weiguo (Feng Li), whose parents favor him as unabashedly as his co-workers mistreat him; and Gao Weiqiang (Lu Yulai), the dreamy narrator whose life is overshadowed by his two older siblings. All three characters?played by first-time actors?hover between childhood and adulthood. The Gaos march to their own time, refusing?or just failing?to follow the prescribed paths toward maturity. Weihong struggles...
...cannot understand how Iraqi men can so blatantly mistreat their women and feel no remorse or shame. How can they kill their mothers, sisters, wives and girlfriends with such ferocity? Do they not understand that for their country to have a future, men and women need to work together? Murder is wrong, regardless of what a woman has done. SHIRLEY JONES-LUKE Boston...
...know that her father and brother would give their lives in a heartbeat if doing so would bring her back. That fathers and brothers kill daughters and sisters in the name of honor is beyond abominable. Louise McLeod Duncan, Canada I cannot understand how Iraqi men can so blatantly mistreat their women and feel no remorse or shame. How can they kill their mothers, sisters, wives and girlfriends with such ferocity? Don't they see their women suffering? Do they not understand that for their country to have a future, men and women need to work together? Murder is wrong...
...cage or the number of “enrichments” provided to captive primates, animal experimenters at Harvard Medical School (HMS) distract attention away from their inability to justify actions that, if conducted outside of the laboratory, would constitute animal cruelty (News, “Harvard Said to Mistreat Its Monkeys,” Nov. 6). As Alice Walker said, “The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women created for men.” Because there...
...told Time that U.S. bombers inflicted heavy casualties on fleeing Taliban fighters. In Mazar locals rounded up stray Taliban who had failed to escape and held them until rebels arrived. Some captives were released and, a top Alliance official told Time, the conquering generals received specific orders not to mistreat prisoners of war. But the depths of tribal hatred in the city raised the possibility of brutal reprisals against captured Taliban...