Word: heinousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Army refuses to comment on how its own "don't ask, don't tell" policy could have led to this heinous crime. Witnesses at Glover's trial testified to the harassment Winchell encountered on a daily basis because of his suspected homosexuality. His platoon sergeant described him as "walking around down in the dumps." Perhaps Winchell would be alive and well today if the armed forces were not so vaguely opposed to openly homosexual servicepeople...
Justice for the victims of Pinochet's heinous crimes will not only make democracy fuller and more secure now, it also promotes democracy and human rights in other places and in future times. The countless people who suffered terribly at the hands of Pinochet deserve justice. So do all of us who have thus far been lucky enough to escape from the world's other Pinochets...
...shopping for the next Julia Roberts. "There was no [career] strategy involved," she says. "I decided back in September that I really wanted to do a play, and I was fascinated by the material. What motivates some people to commit what is, from a judgmental point of view, a heinous act? We don't really acknowledge the irrational aspects of life that exist just because we are human...
These measures are the wrong way to approach preventing another tragedy like the one in Littleton. Juveniles are uniquely receptive to rehabilitation and should not be imprisoned with hardened criminals. Kids who commit heinous crimes must be punished, but they must also be allowed to have a future. The harsher sentencing of juveniles as adults is not a proven deterrent and puts impressionable youngsters in contact with those least likely to help them re-integrate into society...
Acquaintance: Not too bad. I have (two labs, three papers, five exams, insert concentration specific but always heinous workload here), but I want to go out this weekend so I have to get stuff done. And I haven't even started the paper for my core class...