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...soccer stadium in Prijedor. "The next morning we were marched to a highway intersection for selection," recalls Elezovic. "The men, women and children, and old people were separated. A man pushing a stroller with his one-year-old son in it was pulled to the side. They put a vicious dog up to his throat. We could see his insides spilling out. Then he was taken to a garage and shot...
...place of the Bunting Institute (who needs graduate fellowships, anyway?) the Radcliffe Center could host a series of workshops to help conservatives deal with the pressures of living amongst all those vicious liberals. Prospective editorialists could cultivate that characteristic snide tone of voice. Brow-beaten moralists could learn to cope in the presence of revision and plurality...
Life requires of excellence a balance of one's reading and one's dreams, between one's life exertions and one's life fantasies, between the world's vicious self-destructiveness and its breath-taking beauty...
...There are of course possible alternative explanations or interpretations of Jennifer Widner's vicious confrontationalist assault on my dignity and status," the letter says...
...useful distraction from the internal power struggles among northern and southern Hutu. All Rwandans were required to carry racial- identity cards; there was talk of herding Tutsi into certain regions, an apartheid imposed by blacks on fellow blacks. Any effort by Tutsi to reassert themselves met with a vicious and murderous response. "There was bludgeoning of public opinion," argues Philip Reyntjens, professor of law and politics at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. "Ethnicity does not necessarily have to give rise to violence, but one can easily manipulate ethnicity to throw people against one another...