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...think Americans want to win The Cup badly? Well, New Zealanders are treated to a TV commercial, with the swift Black Magic flanked by the monstrous words "THIS TIME!" across the screen. Of course, my own New Zealand heritage wouldn't hold any bias, would it? But believe me, that my New Zealand relatives would actually consider flying to San Diego to see the finals says enough...
...that point Harvard's experience and pride took over. Hadrick came up with two clutch offensive rebounds and two free throws down the stretch and sophomore center Debbie Flandermeyer turned in another monstrous performance, finishing with game highs of 22 points, 15 rebounds, and five blocks. Flandermeyer received Ivy League Player of the Week honors for the second time this season for her 35 point, 23 rebound weekend...
Perhaps Auschwitz is simply too monstrous for passions to cool completely; perhaps 50 years' distance is not enough. Auschwitz was by far the worst of the Nazi concentration camps, containing the bones and ashes of the estimated 1.5 million of Hitler's victims who died there--1.1 million Jews, 75,000 Poles and thousands of others including Gypsies, homosexuals and communists, targeted for annihilation by Hitler's minions. The camp is at once the world's largest cemetery and most gruesome industrial artifact. ``It was an experiment in how to kill the most people in the smallest area...
...sister were correct, "then Jacobs is innocent of capital murder." Said George Kendall of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund: "The state should have reopened his case and, at the least, vacated his death sentence, if not his conviction." Even the Vatican denounced the execution as "not only incredible, but monstrous and absurd...
...years after the critics were brutally silenced in Tiananmen Square, that the communist rulers rammed the project through the National People's Congress. Even today, as construction finally gets rolling, the dam still draws fire from environmentalists around the world. To opponents, it is a symbol of mankind's monstrous interventions in nature, an enterprise that will not only displace people but also devastate wildlife and alter the landscape forever...