Word: stabs
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Uday and Qusay Hussein hated each other. When they were boys, Uday would torture his younger brother, going so far as to stab him in the thigh and break his ribs and to try to blind him with a burning cigarette stub. Over the course of four decades they would become, apart from their father Saddam, the most feared men in Iraq--responsible for untold numbers of maimings, jailings and murders and, in the case of Uday, rapes as well. The brothers never outgrew their mutual contempt. Qusay loathed Uday's drunken rampages and reprobate lifestyle; Uday railed to friends...
True crime isn't really Krakauer's beat--he's the author of Into Thin Air, the bestselling account of a disastrous Everest expedition--but he takes an able, earnest stab at it. It turns out that Ron and Dan weren't just plain crazy. They were members of a fundamentalist Mormon sect, and Krakauer spends much of the book putting their crime in the context of the strange and violent history of the Mormon Church...
...German public employers, which agreed to a 4% wage increase for civil servants nationwide earlier this year. Economy Minister Harald Wolf says Berlin is instead offering wage cuts in exchange for not firing thousands of workers. Roland Tremper of the Verdi public sector trade union calls this "a stab in the back for all employees." The grim mood extends far beyond the arcane details of the city budget. Last week Berliners solemnly marked the 50th anniversary of a nationwide workers' uprising in East Germany that was brutally suppressed by Soviet tanks on June 17, 1953. Those workers were demanding freedom...
...ascendancy of conservative outlets such as Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel - and particularly such ratings powerhouses as commentator Bill O'Reilly - have been a growing source of frustration for Democrats. And while liberal commentators such as former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower have made a stab at syndicated talk shows, they have by and large been unsuccessful. In March, the MSNBC cable news network canceled Phil Donahue's talk show after a disappointing six-month run against The O'Reilly Factor. However, some liberals point to the success of Hillary Clinton's just-released memoir as evidence that...
...Portraying her as a female Rambo, the sources explained how Lynch, 19, continued to fire at Iraqi soldiers even after being shot several times. Many news organizations (including TIME) reiterated this version of events, citing the Post. The BBC program implied that the Pentagon publicly released details of her stab and bullet wounds (in an article in the British paper the Guardian, the show's producer explicitly states as much), then presented the Iraqi doctors who treated her asserting that she had no such wounds. But the Pentagon initially said very little about Lynch's condition--merely that...