Word: deepest
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...families of both Michael Carter and his suspected assailants, there are only long days and nights trying to cope under the deepest pain, a pain made deeper by gazing through, say, the Hollis family photo album, or peering into Carter's empty bedroom, or awakening to hear Tyrone Reyes sobbing on the phone from prison asking his mother Marjorie Toins, "So how long you think this is gonna take?" Toins worries that neither Tyrone nor Terrance, her only children, understands the seriousness of what he is up against. "I don't think that it has sunk in that they...
While the families and friends of the Oklahoma City bombing victims have my deepest sympathy, I cannot help shuddering at the inhumanity displayed by the people who cheered when McVeigh was sentenced to death. This showed they are capable of the same anger and desire to take a life. Are we no better than he is? JEFF GEBAUER Dubuque, Iowa
Companies, meanwhile, stand to lose not just the costs of a lawsuit but also their sales to minority consumers and access to the deepest possible labor pool. "If you're sued, you lose," contends Jerry Maatman, a partner at Chicago's Baker & McKenzie, who in 1989 hit upon the idea of offering companies "audits" of their personnel practices--and so their vulnerability to a discrimination suit. "Our job is to find out what's wrong and then be a doctor and heal them," he says. And judging merely by the pending suits in his own city, there is still...
...leaves and think about the way it used to be. Then I go down to the fence, and strangers will sometimes ask me questions: "Where was the front door to the building?" or "Where was the truck parked?" Then I tell them who I am, and they share their deepest thoughts with me. That's a very positive thing--to touch and see and talk and visit. And to continue to tell the story of who my Julie-Marie...
...great 19th century commemorator in sculpture was the Irish-born Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). His deepest memorial was dedicated to the Union Army's Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who led the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, made up entirely of black volunteers, in a death charge on the ramparts of Fort Wagner in South Carolina. It is an extraordinary work, not only because of its sculptural mastery and its integration of Renaissance motifs into a modern matrix, but also for its content: one of the very few 19th century American treatments of blacks in art that neither mocks nor condescends...