Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coming on the eve of the final Lilith Fair, the all-female concert tour that Sarah McLachlan brought to life two summers ago, her Mirrorball (Arista) marks one of the most exciting and fruitful periods for female singer-songwriters since Laura Nyro and Carole King lit up concert halls in the late '60s and early '70s. Much of the excitement has hovered around Lilith itself, which boosted once underrated talents like Lucinda Williams and Shawn Colvin. But the soul of the new female pop machine is surely McLachlan, whose tunes have gained the kind of prom-night, dorm-room...
...usual definition of having to choose between denying their faith and living or affirming their faith and dying. The question "Do you believe in God?" was apparently not asked by the killers in most of the deaths; this seems to indicate that they were merely taunting their victims. The final testimony of the students to their faith is compelling, but it is not martyrdom, and we distort the true meaning of the word by misusing it. KENNETH G. OLTHOFF Linthicum...
...future. By a 280-to-147 vote Friday, the House of Representatives decided to reject the entire raft of gun control measures the chamber had managed to slog through, sometimes in partisan hand-to-hand parliamentary combat, during the week?s blazing shootout over firearms. Democrats voted against the final bill because of a key NRA-backed provision -- approved by the slimmest of majorities -- which would have weakened existing restrictions on gun-show sales. They were joined by a group of conservative Republicans who objected to almost all the measure?s provisions. Though some resuscitation of gun control might still...
...black Texas Western basketball team defeats all-white Kentucky in NCAA final...
...Pele at his peak only once, at the final of the World Cup in 1970. Brazil's opponent was Italy, which played its tough defense coupled with sudden thrusts to tie the game 1-1, demoralizing the Brazilians. Italy could very easily have massed its defense even more, until its frantic opponent began making the mistakes that would encompass its ruin. But, led by Pele, Brazil paid no attention. Attacking as if the Italians were a practice team, the Brazilians ran them into the ground...