Word: weaponeering
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...Remember the bad guy from Lethal Weapon 2? "Diplomatic immunity" - that guy? Great British actor. Joss Ackland. And there's the singer Joss Stone. We're out there...
...Persians had sacked the city and abandoned it, deporting its captive population deep into Persian territory. Dura-Europos became a ghost town, engulfed in sand until joint French-American teams dug it up in the 1930s. (Read TIME's cover story on a different kind of modern U.S. military weapon...
...escape her own far-reaching criticisms, “The Fear” is a previously-released track about the seduction of show business and the ways Allen has compromised herself for it. She quips, nodding to the obsessions of contemporary politics, “I am a weapon of massive consumption; / It’s not my fault, it’s how I’m programmed to function.”There are, of course, songs less successful than others—for instance, “Chinese” tries to celebrate the comfortable and mundane...
...abusive relationships. In addition, Ensler’s V-Day movement, which aims to end violence against women and girls, has chosen the rape and abuse of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo as its 2009 spotlight campaign. During the current conflict the use of rape as a weapon of war has become prevalent and “Vagina Monologue” performances around the country will take part in raising awareness of the issue. The production—co-sponsored by the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (OSAPR) and the Harvard College Women?...
...eastern Congo for more than 14 years. Its members have committed many massacres of Tutsi civilians and have exploited the rich mineral resources of the region. The FDLR subjugates people either by rape (often performed in groups - and on people of either gender) or with the AK-47, a weapon so ubiquitous that it has picked up a tragic moniker: the Congolese credit card. Mary, the scarred woman in the center of the photo collage on the next two pages, told me that FDLR men raped her, set her house on fire and left her to die. She survived...