Word: 10th
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...season of grim anniversaries, another passed last week, little noticed. It has been 10 years since rapper Tupac Shakur was shot on a street in Las Vegas. And in six months Voletta Wallace, the mother of Notorious B.I.G., will arrive for the 10th time at the date on which her son fell to a bullet in Los Angeles. While to the wider world, Biggie and Tupac were multiplatinum artists, hip-hop ambassadors and friends turned envenomed foes, to Wallace and Afeni Shakur they were sons, repositories of dreams and years of nurturing. "It's like I got the phone call...
...Crimson, however, fought hard over the first twenty minutes. Despite an early goal notched by Broncos leading scorer Megan Snell in the 10th minute, Harvard nearly captured the equalizer just minutes later when junior Megan Merritt’s header hit off the crossbar...
...able to retire comfortably in 15 or 20 years, maybe even less. Now I have a new job in the mortgage business. I left Mizuho in October 2002. They were cutting back because of the market downturn, and I had resolved that I would never work above any 10th floor again. Coming here, working in what to me is a new industry, almost like a kid just out of college, it's kind of tough. But I still look back and miss those days working in the Trade Center, working with all those great people...
Would another President have done better? That was the question posed by Christopher Hitchens in his best-selling biography Bush: A Study in Greatness, published in 2011, on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Hitchens argued convincingly that neither Al Gore nor John Kerry would have been more successful than Bush in defusing the jihadist threat. "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives but they're a nuisance," Kerry said in an interview in 2004, drawing a parallel with the containment of prostitution, illegal gambling and organized crime...
When he finally got in to see her, however, the meeting did not go as he had expected. For starters, it lasted 45 minutes. "She committed immediately to West Point and the 10th Mountain Division, with follow-up on-site visits," he says. "But it was her enormous depth of knowledge about the military and her sincerity about our people which surprised and disarmed me." As First Lady, Hillary told Keane, she had traveled the globe and had often been able to see parts of the world that security prevented her husband from visiting but where the U.S. Army...