Word: forte
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...Songs make history and history makes songs. It needed a French Revolution to make a 'Marseillaise' and the bombardment of Fort McHenry to give voice to 'The Star Spangled Banner...
...victims of domestic violence; in Weimar, Germany. Bokhari, outspoken about women's rights, is seeking to abolish the Pakistani tradition of condemning to death women who commit adultery. DIED. LARRY COSTELLO, 70, a five-time All-Star guard for the Philadelphia 76ers and former Milwaukee Bucks coach; in Fort Myers, Florida. Costello, known as among the last to lob the two-handed set shot, clinched NBA titles alongside Wilt Chamberlain in 1967 and when coaching the Bucks in 1971. DIED. ASHOK KUMAR, 90, Indian screen legend who dazzled audiences in more than 250 films and won Indian cinema's highest...
...figuring out where the spores came from. That won't be easy. While new tests on letters received by Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy reveal a genetic fingerprint (called the Ames strain) that's traceable back to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease at Fort Detrick, Maryland, officials point out there are as many as 12 private labs that receive military samples for research. Officials are also checking into an ongoing anthrax-development project at the Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. While the possibility of an Army connection has raised a few eyebrows, investigators...
...country from an intangible and amorphous threat. "Our military forces have been designed primarily to fight a conventional war with a conventional enemy, and we've learned the hard way that as much destruction can be caused by an errant airplane as by a powerful bomb," Wexler told the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel in September, just after the attacks...
...economy in the short term - Wall Street has largely shifted its attention to corporate profits, and has had plenty of time to get used to the idea of disappointment from Washington. But the stimulus package that wasn't (if indeed it isn't) may turn out to be the Fort Sumter of fiscal policy for the rest of the next expansion - and that's something economists and politicians alike should be paying attention...