Word: vicious
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...Also known as Nigeria's Taliban, Boko Haram formed about eight years ago. A huge government operation against the group in 2004 ended with the police claiming victory. But five years on and the militants are back, stronger and more vicious. In the latest outbreak of violence, in Maiduguri, the capital of northeastern Borno state, militant gunmen assaulted police stations and engaged armored-personnel backed troops. (Read "Big Tobacco Sets Its Sights on Africa...
...What we have are the wounds of men creating wounds in women, creating wounds in children," says Zevenbergen. "Who is going to stop the vicious circle...
...successor, Gordon Brown, raised the white flag, informing the House of Commons that he had ordered an inquiry even before British troops complete their withdrawal from Basra this summer. "Thanks to our efforts and those of our allies over six difficult years, a young democracy has replaced a vicious 30-year dictatorship," said the Prime Minister...
Many other Bosnians are growing accustomed to the resurgent Islamic faith around them. Nearly 15 years after the country's vicious war - in which an estimated 100,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed - its capital, Sarajevo, is experiencing a religious revival. The city's physical scars have mostly healed since the siege of the 1990s. Its shell-blasted walls have been replastered and the infamous Sniper Alley - named for the Serb gunmen who shot at those crossing the street - is now clogged with traffic. (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...
...said about this book, and about vampires in general, that you prefer more vicious ones, none of this "Romantic languid young men sucking the necks of beautiful people." That aspect of vampirism has never attracted me. In Polidori's Vampyre, the beauty of Lord Ruthven - who is the vampire in that story - the beauty of him is that he's both. He is described as a creature in one scene, and he's also the romantic lead. Those strands will always be intertwined in the common imagination. But I'm attracted much more to the re-animated corpse hungry...