Word: backyarders
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Instead of being cremated, as promised and paid for, these families' relatives had been stacked like firewood in piles of a dozen or more, jammed into sheds and buried haphazardly in the backyard of the crematory owners. For the rest of the week the families took the urns they thought contained their loved ones' ashes to the Walker County Civic Center in hopes of putting them to rest--again. "One woman had her mama in her lap. The next one had her uncle. The next one had her brother," recalls Gary Guy, 50, who had come from Ringgold...
...days when professionals were considered to have a monopoly on wisdom are ending, thank God. And Bono's advocacy is an important part of that change. "He understands," says Trevor Neilson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, "that the battle for development is going to be won at the backyard barbecue, not at the Council on Foreign Relations." Fire up the grill...
...Kelly was a strict taskmaster on the set, an obsessive games-player in team charades at home with friends. (Gene and Betsy Kelly were a bit like the Kennedys, athletic, competitive and clannish; late in life, Gene looked like a much fitter Teddy.) Playing volleyball in the backyard, he became so vexed at his inability to score that in anger he stomped his foot, broke an ankle ? and convinced friend Fred to come out of his first retirement and take over the Kelly role in "Easter Parade...
...Qaida element they intend to pursue and the bulk of the Chechen fighters who will, presumably, be left unmolested unless they challenge Georgian authorities. But Moscow's chagrin is ultimately fueled by the profound strategic consequences of the arrival of U.S. forces in what has traditionally been Russia's backyard...
...advantage in the Caucasus; instead Shevardnadze appears to have outmaneuvered him by using the campaign against al-Qaida as a pretext to invite the Americans in. If the U.S. military sets up shop there, it will be read as the geopolitical equivalent of getting Russia evicted from its own backyard - and a crafty Georgian move to turn Russia's cooperative attitude towards with President Bush into an opportunity to decisively break free of Moscow's influence. The personal relations between Presidents Bush and Putin may be warm and fuzzy, but geopolitics is still geopolitics...