Word: corpses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lula's predecessor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, was the first President to recognize that change was needed. He restored fiscal sanity by slaying hyperinflation, but his attempts at social reform were timid. Lula's victory in 2002 panicked Wall Street and the Brazilian élite. But instead of defaulting on Brazil...
Long before television and the Internet, graphic battlefield photos by Mathew Brady's corps of war photographers made their way into homes through photo-album books. (In Timothy O'Sullivan's 1863 Gettysburg tableau A Harvest of Death, you can practically hear the flies buzz over the bloated corpses.) The U.S. censored war photos during World War I, a policy that continued into World War II. But in 1943, President Roosevelt reversed the ban, believing Americans, unaware of the war's high cost, were becoming complacent. Vietnam, a generation later, was the media's war. Television broadcasts and searing photographs...
When one wants to see a championship-caliber squad, there is no need to look any further than the Harvard softball team. Winners of the 2008 Ivy League North Division title—and runners-up in the Ivy League Championship Series—the Crimson has a great amount...
Strength. Balance. Unity.Every class has a set of traits that contributes to the success of a team, but these three hold especially true for the juniors on the Harvard softball team. “We call them the ‘Schmen,’ because there are seven of...
At the time, Dobroshi was in Macedonia, where she was helping set up a refugee camp for the International Medical Corps (IMC), working with people who had been severely traumatized by the war. "There were kids who didn't talk," she recalls. "Men and women who were just screaming."