That is insane.

The legal definition of torture implies the intentional infliction of severe suffering.

That blindness was repeated once again in Brazil.

Tom doesn't blame Mary for being mad.

(f) The intentional destruction of bookkeeping documents earlier than foreseen by the law.

Deliberately manipulating the earth s climate seems like something from science fiction.

This is the context in which India's plunge into folly and peril took place.

In the past, intentionally hastening the death of any person was always a crime, no matter the circumstances.

NEW YORK This global economic crisis will go down in history as Greenspan s Folly.

The economic guru of that era, Milton Friedman, claimed that the deliberate pursuit of full employment was bound to fuel inflation.

These regular, deliberate restrictions on internet access contrast sharply with India s otherwise forward thinking technology polices.

The United Nations Human Rights Council condemned the deliberate removal of internet services in June, just a few weeks before the violence erupted.

The financial sector s inexcusable recklessness, given free rein by mindless deregulation, was the obvious precipitating factor of the crisis.

One high ranking policymaker noted in mid July, This is truly shocking We understand politics, but your government s continued recklessness is astonishing.

From what we have seen over the past five years, the correct answer probably contains more than a little bad faith and sheer ineptitude.

Thanks to his blog, it is rumored, he has become a recognized local figure in Dagestan s corridors of power, which values his honesty but also disapproves of his temerity.

Osamu Suzuki, CEO and COO of the company (and a grandson in law of its founder), is a creative decision maker, a maverick who considers himself an old man in a mom and pop company that concentrated most of its resources on producing motorcycles and light motor vehicles.

They have also clearly understood the folly of violent resistance, and have made a dramatic shift to nonviolent action with the acceptance (and possibly encouragement) of the international community in order to maintain pressure on the occupiers.

In mid August, I had the temerity to predict that risks had come home to roost, and that a large US investment bank might soon fail or be forced into a highly distressed merger. Little did I imagine that today, there would be no freestanding investment bank left on Wall Street.

In mid August, I had the temerity to predict that risks had come home to roost, and that a large US investment bank might soon fail or be forced into a highly distressed merger.

It took the courage or recklessness, depending on your point of view of US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to send the world into recession in 1981 2 in order to break the back of inflation.

But military operations that kill or injure civilians often do not automatically qualify as crimes, as long as deliberately inflicting pain or humiliation on a helpless individual even if he or she is an enemy is not the aim.

Saudi King Abdullah chastised Prince Muhammad for recklessness, but the King must also be thankful that his family has produced a security chief who has broken the back of Al Qaeda, at least inside the Kingdom.

But even more striking than the ferocious power emanating from that well was the recklessness with which that power was unleashed the carelessness, the lack of planning that characterized the operation from drilling to clean up.

Their fecklessness and recklessness are what convince much of the world that Africans can do nothing but dance, slaughter each other, and beg.

But, above all, what makes Obama unique, given what the US has been through during the Bush years, is the nature of the message he embodies, which is best summed up in the title of his book The Audacity of Hope .