Word: blazes
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...compound belonging to the cult 31 miles from the church in Kanungu yielded at least 150 more bodies, including 60 children and mostly women who had been strangled and hacked to death. Officials were still trying to determine whether cult leader Joseph Kibwetere, 68, died in the blaze or escaped. The onetime devout Roman Catholic teacher helped create the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God sect 10 years ago, after claiming he had been told by the Virgin Mary that the world would soon end. In the mid-1990s, he established a base in remote Kanungu...
...driven woman of the '90s. She has successfully catapulted herself into stardom, helped only by the untimely death of her husband, the slightly-more-infamous Kurt Cobain. Her recent transformation is simply another step onwards and upwards for a woman who remains a role-model for women seeking to blaze their own trails towards success. Simply in step with the times, Love has moved beyond the angst/heroin/rock days of the early '90s to embrace prosperity and mainstream culture with a vengeance. Who was she kidding anyway? She wasn't out there to make a statement against American culture, she wanted...
...catastrophes to which we attempt to assign blame or affix explanations but which we know intuitively to be inexplicable. In the past year, a teacher and 12 schoolchildren were shot down by schoolchildren in Colorado; 12 people died building a bonfire in Texas; six fire fighters died fighting a blaze in a warehouse in Massachusetts; six Marines and a Navy man fell to their death in a helicopter exercise off the coast of San Diego. Our insistently enlightened minds leap to "solve" such things, but their effect on our spirits has more to do with our helplessness. Helplessness brings...