Word: escapees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It can be argued that when the blame for tragedies like those afflicting the former Yugoslavia is generalized, or attributed to cosmic forces, individuals who may be guilty of terrible crimes escape just condemnation.
Not quite. They--or, rather, producer Arnold Kopelson--read it in a New Yorker article in 1992. "Crisis in the Hot Zone," Richard Preston's true story about the near escape of the Ebola virus from a Virginia lab, threw Hollywood into a bidding frenzy, and Kopelson was one of...
The U.S. sent security experts and FBI agents to Karachi to gather evidence and offered a $2 million reward for help in finding the killers, unlikely as that is. "It could be anybody," says a U.S. intelligence official in Washington. The only certainty is that the Americans made very easy...
Ma's enthusiasm is hard to escape when conversation comes around to volleyball. He talks about teaching his team "skills they can use elsewhere." He stresses the opportunity volleyball has provided for many of the newer members of Dunster House to meet each other. He even guarantees that "it's...
Some of Spacks' most interesting observations surround boredom in women's lives and fiction. In both the 18th and 19th centuries, women's lives were defined by predictable routine. Reading offered an escape, but the dangers implicit in that escape were well known: unless novels were written in accordance with...