Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Israel lacks legitimate security concerns ignores a history of terror against innocent civilians as recent as recent news that the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was responsible for the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. This incident brings the death toll of innocent Americans, including a Harvard graduate aboard that flight, at the hands of the Intifada higher than that of innocent Palestinians, though one must note the over-whelming majority of innocent Palestinians killed in the Intifada are killed by Palestinians following Yassir Arafat's prompting that any Palestinian who "thinks of stopping...
...James A. Talcott, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, studied thirty-three individuals who worked in a factory making cigarette filters with crocidolite fibers in 1953. Twenty-eight of the workers had died, three times the expected death rate...
...murder scenes are also handled particularly well; often a character will expire so unobtrusively that the audience discovers their death at about the same time as the actors do. Through it all, the nursery rhyme hangs over the mantle, predicting each crime and challenging both the actors and the audience to figure them...
Some of the most promising actors in this play are cut short when their characters are murdered, but, gratifyingly, the show is stolen by two who manage to evade death until near the end. As Sir Lawrence Wargrave, a notorious "hanging judge," Woody Hill paces through his scenes like a hawk, interrogating other characters in courtroom style and calmly remarking, "We've been invited here by a madman, probably homicidal." Miss Vera Claythorne (Reid Cottingham) uses physical objects perfectly, obsessively adjusting the rings on her finger and hovering in the background with a cigarette like an angel of death...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua--President Daniel Ortega ended a 19-month truce with Contra guerrillas yesterday, blaming the United States for renewed rebel attacks and accusing President Bush of "promoting death, assassination, crime and terrorism in Nicaragua...