Word: april
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...flew to Milan, met with his team of sleuths and mapped out a bold maneuver. And then on Saturday, April 10, in a wrenching scene on a Lucerne street, the girls were plucked like flowers from their mother's side. Their secret lives ended as abruptly as they had begun--whisked away by car as their mother screamed for them...
...case, happy birthday, Duke. Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington--pianist, bandleader, composer, swinger and genius--was born on April 29, 1899, in Washington. His centenary is being marked in large and small ways, with the release of several boxed sets, including RCA Victor's impressive and intimidating 24-CD Duke Ellington Centennial Edition (out April 27). For fans whose CD players can't accommodate two-dozen discs at a time, there's the satisfyingly concise single CD The Best of the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition. Other tributes range from last week's posthumous Pulitzer citation to the more than 400 commemorative...
...been suspicious of Ethan's self-inflicted wound, it took them months to fully link the Chevy Suburban to the Rustica robbery and then to Ethan--and weeks more to confirm the connection with DNA tests. But by the following spring, authorities were finally ready to move. On April 16, 1998, they arrested Ethan at school...
...have never been prouder of Bill Clinton and the U.S. military than now, for standing up to Balkan bully Slobodan Milosevic in order to stop the systematic murder of ethnic Albanians [KOSOVO CRISIS, April 5]. After Hitler exterminated 6 million Jews, the West said it would never let such a tragedy occur again. Well now is the time to back up that promise, because it is happening again. LYNN CAPEHART San Diego...
...read with great interest and sadness Charles Krauthammer's commentary "The Clinton Doctrine" [ESSAY, April 5], in which he quoted a foreign policy expert's description of managing the "teacup wars" of the world and the "uncivil civil wars" of nation-states. The interest came from its facts and logic, the sadness from the doctrine's "highfalutin moral principles [that] are impossible guides to foreign policy" and the inevitable wavering between the deplorable poles of hypocrisy and naivete. After reflection, however, I find that both President Clinton and Krauthammer are correct. The Kosovo affair seems like the pursuit of knowledge...