Word: bloodbath
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...Marines have been sent in to secure the American embassy in Port au-Prince as Haiti braces for a bloodbath. A rag-tag rebel militia on Monday overran the country's second city, Cap Haitien, and vowed to press on to the capital in order to unseat President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide, who was restored to power by U.S. military intervention in 1994 following a coup remains the country's elected president, but opposition groups point to electoral fraud in the 2000 parliamentary election to argue that he has no legitimacy nor any intent to submit to the will...
...TIME: So is the spiral down into a bloodbath now unavoidable...
...view, who hold forth in preachy, predictable allegories. Yet in The Spice Garden, his debut novel, Michael Vatikiotis, editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, has constructed an engrossing narrative of mass hysteria and mob violence set in the Maluku archipelago, Indonesia's spice islands, during the horrific bloodbath that swept across the area...
...closer the Dow gets to making a new assault on 10,000, the quicker investors seem to be unlearning all the lessons from the three-year bloodbath that preceded this year's rally. Morgan Stanley market guru Steve Galbraith grumbles that either the generations have become shorter or investor behavior deemed "once in a generation" has managed to repeat itself twice in four years. "Our biggest fear," he cautions, "is that the lunatic fringe is again engaging in behavior eerily reminiscent of the bubble...
...revenge for the robbery, Nash, with Holmes’ assistance (whether willing or not is left unclear), sends his men to the drug den on Wonderland and they create a grisly bloodbath rivaled only by the Manson Family murder...