Word: grave
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spend effort, time and money to save the gunman's life, and perhaps pay attorneys to put him away for a couple of years? All this will be paid for by hardworking Americans, who would like to see this person put away where he belongs--in an unmarked grave. LEO W. PFEIFFER Rochester...
Last week the Rolling Stone Network reported that officials at Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, tired of picking up beer cans and condoms, have decided to disinter the remains of Jim Morrison, the late lead singer of the Doors, when the 30-year lease on his grave expires on July 6, 2001. This raises the question: Where should Jim go? Here are some suggestions...
Serbia has avoided the wrath of NATO by skillfully modulating its level of violence in Kosovo. But if reports are confirmed that more than 500 civilian corpses were buried in a mass grave, the West may be forced to act. "NATO has been sitting back and waiting for the Serbs to cross a threshold," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "They'll think long and hard before attacking, because to protect Western pilots NATO will have to disable the Serbs' air defenses, and that means striking throughout Serbia...
Cohen declared the story "irresponsible" because it leveled such grave charges against the U.S. and its troops without the "overpowering evidence" such explosive allegations require. The Pentagon probe found that Robert Van Buskirk, a Tailwind platoon leader and a prime source for the original story, never mentioned sarin or defectors in an after-action briefing he gave. Retired Captain Michael Rose, the Tailwind medic, told Pentagon investigators that he had no doubt the fumes he inhaled were tear gas, just like the whiffs he got in basic training. "It's like skunk," he said. "Once you smell it, you never...
...military cemetery that stands where the guns once looked down on Omaha Beach, where American troops began the bloody business of liberating Europe in World War II. He makes his way through ranks of crosses, their fearful symmetry broken here and there by a Star of David. Finding the grave he seeks, he falls to his knees sobbing, overwhelmed by that flood of memories it is Spielberg's business to reimagine, then to incise on the minds of a generation dismayingly heedless of history...