Word: assassination
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there's a simple justification for speculating on Bush's possible death: a strange mathematical coincidence. Since 1840, the previous nine presidents elected in a year divisible by 20 has either been killed (four), died in office of natural causes (four) or, like Reagan, been the victim of an assassin's bullet. Bush, declared the winner of the 2000 election, is next in line...
...lavishes extra fascination on Arnold Schwarzenegger: man, meme, Governor, bodybuilder, robot assassin--a man who cannot pronounce the letter r even though there's one in California and three in his name. It still boggles her that a celebrity can trade an actor's fame for a politician's popularity and have it be accepted as legal tender, one for one. Schwarzenegger's sheer blankness interests Wilentz too. "He's a pure narcissist," she writes. "Contentless, and in this way highly appropriate to his times...
...months now, police in Illinois have joined forces with officers from other Midwestern cities, federal agents and even Mexico to chase a rabid killer - a silent but deadly assassin that has so far claimed at least 70 lives in and around Chicago, as many as 200 others in the Detroit area and dozens more in states from Missouri to New Jersey. But the suspect isn't a serial killer; it's a lethal brand of the drug fentanyl, sometime mixed with an already potent batch of heroin, or even cocaine or alcohol...
...Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion François Bovon! Have you ever been chased by the giant albino assassin of Opus Dei? “Not only I have not been chased by the giant albino of Opus Dei, but I know exactly where is in Rome, not far from the Piazza Navona, the door on which I should knock to have access to the Opus Dei! “By the way, I am rather slow. It is only after three years I finally bought ‘The Da Vinci Code’ waiting...
...there 's no doubt that they are smart and well-informed and that they know authorities are more vulnerable in an election year," said Bruno Paes Manso, an expert on the PCC and author of the book The X Man: A Look into the Soul of the Sao Paulo Assassin. "President Lula will be criticized for not investing more in public security, but Alckmin will be the one that is hurt most because this hasn't happened in the rest of the country...