Word: reporter
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...August, an Amnesty International report documented Israeli use of "indiscriminate and excessive" force against Paelstianians. Entitled "Israel and the Occupied Territories, Excessive Force: Beatings to Maintain Law and Order," the report details both the systemic nature and broad scale of Israeli violence against Palestinians. Hundreds have been killed by Israeli forces since December, when the Intifada, as the Palestian uprising is called, began, and thousands more have been brutally beaten, abused, incarcerated and humiliated...
...organization, Physicians for Human Rights, deplored the extreme physical violence Palestinians have suffered, in a report they published earlier this year. In it, they conclude: "Indeed the word 'beating' does not properly convey the literal pounding and mauling with clubs and other weapons required to produce the injuries...
...Department of Agriculture executive in Minnesota offers a chilling report of two small farm children who eventually refused to board their school bus: "One afternoon, they came home on the bus and they saw the machinery being hauled away. On another afternoon, they saw the livestock hauled away. The kids said, if they rode that bus again, they'd be hauling mom and dad away...
Since the new "sandwich generation" of workers must often care for both children and parents, companies can no longer ignore workers' personal needs. A special report examines how firms are responding, from building a day- care center at the office for Junior to providing help in finding the right nursing home for Grandma. The result: higher employee morale and productivity...
...just stabbed my wife and two daughters," one man screamed into the phone. "I buried my wife and daughter in the backyard. My other daughter is buried under the pier." The Los Angeles police, who do not monitor the line, say that it is up to the operators to report likely crimes. But Denton does not feel qualified to judge whether someone is telling the truth. Besides, confessors' calls are usually untraceable...