Word: bulleteer
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When Bono tears loose on U2's Bullet the Blue Sky, you can still hear the ache of fear in his voice, the closeness of the memory. The song is immediate and passionate, a cry of conscience on an album full of oblique social speculation and spiritual voyaging. The Joshua Tree is not, it would seem at first, a record for these times. Bono and the rest of the Irish band called U2 seem to be citizens of some alternative time frame spliced from the idealism of the '60s and the musical free-for-all of the late '70s. Their...
...children who answered the questionnaire are all dead. The record books the teachers are arranging on the shelves have bullet holes in them. And most of the teachers are survivors of the Beslan hostage siege last September, when more than 1,100 people?many of them children?were held by terrorists loyal to Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev. At least 331 people died, including 186 children, in a chaotic rescue operation during which Russian security forces hit the school with incendiary grenades and tank shells. The fire brigade waited two hours before putting out the blaze that engulfed the gymnasium...
...later learned the man was Kennedy, who'd swum to Naru island to be closer to shipping lanes. "While we were drinking from the coconuts," Gasa recalls, "a group of other men appeared. 'We are from America' they said. Eroni grabbed his rifle but he put in the wrong bullet and couldn't fire." Eventually, the two groups realized they were on the same side. "Those men were so happy and relieved to have been found by us," says Gasa. "They were very weak. They were crying...
...killing of innocent people lack both honor and humanity. Not only are they an insult to the religion of Islam, they are a disgrace to the human race. Aaron S. Bayley Toronto The only thing I want to see inside the mind of an Iraqi suicide bomber is a bullet fired from a U.S. rifle. Why does Time give America's sworn enemies a forum in which to spew their venom? I do not need you to show me America's enemies in this war. I saw their face in the blood and fire of the World Trade Center...
...only thing I want to see inside the mind of an Iraqi suicide bomber is a bullet from a U.S. rifle. Why does TIME give America's sworn enemies a forum in which to spew their venom? I do not need you to show me America's enemies in this war. I saw their face in the blood and fire of the World Trade Center, and it is the face of pure evil. Those suicide bombers don't need to be understood; they need to be eradicated. Lewis B. Smith Greenville, Texas...