Word: die
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harbor a fierce hostility toward their attackers. In the rebel-held town of Gahini, Rayontina Mukansonera, 19, describes being raped repeatedly by Hutu militia before escaping in the confusion following the rebel advance. "They showed no mercy," she says, matter-of-factly. "Someone who destroys your life deserves to die also." For the R.P.F., healing the ethnic wounds of this brutal war will take more than words alone...
...learn when you teach required course that there is always a trade-off," says Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler. "I personally feel sorry for people who are going to die without reading a poem by Horace or play by Aeschylus, but that's up to them...
Change, though, is what makes any city great, and though traditions die hard around here, in Boston changes happen all the time, to great effect. If a hundred 20-year-olds like a band, that band gets noticed; if a writer wants to make a splash, there are dozens of well-read magazines and newspapers that can accommodate...
...wife? (Very carefully.) How do you remove those telltale blood stains from the backseat? (Very quickly.) Spinning delirious variations on familiar film noir conventions and pulling career-best performances from < Travolta, Willis, Thurman and especially Jackson as a Bible-spouting sociopath, Tarantino makes a smart, fatal movie. It's Die Hard with a brain...
...When I found Taylor, he took the cigar out of his mouth, handed it to me and said, 'Want a smoke?' Then he got up and said these very famous words: 'There are two kinds of men on this beach: the dead, and those about to die. So let's get the hell out of here!' He began to run and led us through the breach under fire. There's a kind of -- not courage, but anger and balls that mix together on a charge. But whatever you do, keep away from words like heroism. We were...