Word: cyrus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people with a zillion dollars in the bank aren't all bad. Either way, everything feels compromised, corrupted. The phone rings. It's Philip Morris -- they want to sponsor your next tour, hold a cigarette giveaway in your name. And do you mind a double billing with Billy Ray Cyrus...
...survivor insisted such redress was basic "Christian discipline"). Disobedience frequently brought out the "helper," a paddle often wielded by Koresh's "mighty men" in the "whipping room" just off the first floor. The instrument left circle-shaped lesions, an inch across, on the children's buttocks. Koresh's son Cyrus, when he was three years old, once refused a command and, according to a former cult member, was starved for two days and forced to sleep on a garage floor where Koresh told him large rats prowled...
...elected to cure domestic ills and who, as he begins his second 100 days in office, is already in political trouble. Clinton told a television interviewer last week that he was distressed when he heard the Bosnian Serbs had refused to go along with the peace plan negotiated by Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen. "I don't want to have to spend any more time on that than is absolutely necessary," Clinton said, "because what I got elected to do was to let America look at our own problems and our own challenges and deal with those things...
...column on yesterday's op-ed page A.M. Rosenthal wrote: "Apology is due to these two honorable men [Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen] from all the columnists, editorial writers, politicians and academics who vilified them while they fought for a political basis for peace...
...reason that Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen have been rightly criticized is that for months they staunchly opposed any military action in their quest for a negotiated settlement...