Word: monsterous
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...quite the opposite.” She conceived of the HBO documentary while speculating why seemingly ordinary prison guards would commit extraordinary acts of violence, she said. She ultimately places blame on high-ranking politicians and a chain of command. “That place turned me into a monster,” a former guard says in the film. Another guard compares fulfilling her torture duties to going to the dentist. After the film, audience members articulated feelings of shock and a desire to take action. “It was a point well-made and clearly points...
...it.Of course, it is possible that these shortcomings are there for a reason. Perhaps Mailer remains twice-removed from his subject because the human mind cannot comprehend the evil of Hitler. Perhaps there is a correspondence between the minor transgressions of a boy and the major evils of a monster. Perhaps in the face of such inexplicable evil, one can only laugh.Perhaps. But these are easy non-answers to difficult questions, and one would expect more from Mailer. At the very least, the courage to confront those questions directly.—Staff writer Patrick R. Chesnut can be reached...
...newspapers as telling police he shot Dink because the journalist insulted the Turkish nation. Local papers are reporting that Samast was allegedly linked to a small ultranationalist group in his hometown, Trabzon, on the Black Sea Coast. "Those who created nationalist sentiment in Turkey have fed such a monster that there are many youngsters on the streets who do not find the ... state nationalist enough and are ready to take the law into their own hands," wrote Ismet Berkan in his daily column in Radikal, one of Turkey's main dailies...
...league in rebounds and block shots, with 8.7 rebounds-per-game and 2.4 blocks-per-game. He is also averaging 16.5 points-per-game, second in the league to Penn forward Mark Zoller’s 19.2 points-per-game.All three of those categories were improved by Cusworth’s monster game at Dartmouth. The big man led the team with a career-high tying 25 points, a game-high 15 rebounds, and four blocked shots.The Big Green is deep in the front court but their lack of height--with their tallest players standing three inches shorter than the seven foot...
...detail that has earned him the nickname Noida's Hannibal Lecter. Criminal psychologists caution that he may just be exaggerating his crimes for notoriety or some other reason. In press reports, Pandhar's son Karan has defended his father, saying, "He is just a suspect. He is not a monster...