Word: slaughtered
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...suicide of British weapons expert David Kelly and the massacre of Irish civil rights marchers by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday. The plays are riveting in their attention to detail and at times heartbreaking, as when a visibly haunted former soldier in Srebrenica recounts his forced participation in the slaughter of Muslims. "We've become the BBC of the theater," Kent says. "We've become a trusted voice...
...cram the undertold history of black soldiers in World War II into a fable of the friendship between an Italian boy and his "chocolate giant." At more than 2 1/2 hours, it's a mess, but it's got battle scenes that thrill and horrify and a brilliantly choreographed slaughter of Italian innocents; the title could have been Massacre at St. Anna...
...corruption - ordinary Chinese might be excused for asking themselves whether the government ever intends to do more than just apologize. To some critics, September's scandals have been a bloody reminder of Beijing's apparent inability or unwillingness to undertake the kind of reforms needed to stop the slaughter from continuing for years to come. "This is a long-term consequence of the economy-oriented ideology," Hu Xingdou, a professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, wrote in an online essay about the tainted-milk-powder issue. "There hasn't been an effort to establish a moral foundation to the market...
Would Blake from Glengarry Glen Ross and Donaghy get along? -David Reichwein, IndianapolisI don't think the two of them would get along, because in [writer David] Mamet's world, human beings really behave like animals. They slaughter each other and eat each other and hunt each other and so forth. That's the opposite, I think, of Donaghy, because as pompous as he is, he avoids conflict as much as possible...
...Iowa More Trouble In Postville The Department of Agriculture has cited Postville-based Agriprocessors Inc.--a kosher slaughterhouse targeted in a huge immigration raid in May--for improper slaughter, on the basis of video evidence (above) supplied by PETA. The Iowa attorney general has also charged the company with more than 9,000 child-labor-law violations, alleging it had hired children as young as 14. Agriprocessors denied the allegations...