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Ideas about another acclaimed “tortured artist” were enlarged by “Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

While a paper’s methodology could be more or less rigorous, and data could be tortured into fitting preconceived conclusions, the falsification of an entire study was extraordinary.

After surviving World War II, Zawacka was imprisoned and tortured by the Communists in the 1950s, but she lived to see a free Poland.

The second-wicket pair were tortured by England's hostility, taking blows, playing and missing.

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Guo, who served as mayor of a town north of Manila, was found guilty of running a Chinese-operated online gambling centre where hundreds of people were forced to run scams or risk torture.

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