Word: assassination
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...mansion decorated with grand staircases, stained-glass windows and prehistoric pottery. In one corner, there's a glass-walled computer room filled with a dozen flat, plasma screens that monitor the solar system. Beside them sits an evil-looking robotic biped that serves alternately as sophisticated jukebox and lethal assassin...
...remember the 1999 Duke team, right? It was hailed as the "Team of the Century" and a validation of the Blue Devils as the collegiate athletic program of the decade. With Elton Brand, Trajan Langdon a.k.a. the Alaskan Assassin, Chris Carrawell, Shane Battier, and Corey Maggette, Duke steamrolled to a 16-0 ACC regular season record and a 37-1 mark entering the championship game...
...opening festivities on Thursday at the Lincoln Memorial, a lifelike Wayne Newton quoted Martin Luther King and sang Neil Diamond: "They're coming to America." The theme was inclusion: John Ashcroft was there, fresh from a bitter confirmation hearing in which opponents cast him as a racist character assassin; he greeted Colin Powell, who had sailed through his own hearing, and as singer Kim Weston began the black national anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing, the men were joined by Katherine Harris, late of Tallahassee, Fla. "Stony the road we trod,/Bitter the chastening rod,/Felt in the days when...
DIED. JOHN SCHMITZ, 70, fiery former Orange County Congressman who led Southern California's right wing in the 1960s and '70s; of cancer; in Washington. In 1972 Schmitz replaced George Wallace when the presidential candidate was paralyzed by a would-be assassin. His political career effectively ended in 1982 when it was revealed that he had a pregnant mistress, a former student with whom he had already had a son. And there was further scandal. In 1997 his teacher-daughter Mary Kay LeTourneau, 35, was convicted of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student...
...flinched and wheeled on me with the same look in his eye that he had when the lightbulb exploded. He thought for an instant that I was his assassin, his James Earl Ray. A natural reflex for someone who was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel that day in Memphis...