Word: escorted
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Bruce Springsteen rubbed some men in blue raw at his tour-closing concerts at New York City's Shea Stadium. It was when he performed American Skin (41 Shots), his song about the 1999 killing of West African immigrant Amadou Diallo by four police officers. The N.Y.P.D. yanked his escort for the next few nights, claiming it had been, after all, only a courtesy. Springsteen didn't sing Skin in his next two outings, and--presto!--his police detail was restored. Did the champion of the workingman back down? Maybe he just appreciated anew the lyrics of his song Thunder...
...hereafter as if it were waiting, patiently, urgently, in the next room, as if it were comforting--especially for a man who had wrestled his demons to a draw and learned to walk the line--to think of death not as a psycho killer but as a kindly escort. In September When It Comes, a duet recorded this year with his daughter Rosanne, Cash speak-sings this poignant prophecy: "They will fly me, like an angel,/To a place where I can rest/When this begins, I'll let you know,/September when it comes...
...expect a great reward in heaven. I am looking forward to glory." PAUL HILL, former minister convicted of killing an abortion doctor and his escort, on the eve of his execution...
EXECUTED. PAUL HILL, 49, who in 1994 serenely gunned down a doctor who performed abortions and his volunteer escort in Pensacola, Fla.; by lethal injection; at Florida State Prison, in Starke, Fla. The unrepentant former Christian minister, the first killer of an abortion provider to be executed in the U.S., maintained until his death that abortion opponents should "do what you have to to stop...
...expect a great reward in heaven. I am looking forward to glory." PAUL HILL, former minister convicted of killing an abortion doctor and his escort, on the eve of his execution...