Word: grave
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...athlete who seems to recover, only to face the grave repercussions 30 years later...
Heed the commanders on the ground, Bush told lawmakers, but that plea was chilled by the testimony in another hearing room. The war's icons spoke in person and from the grave, honored and pitied as heroes and pawns. Jessica Lynch was no "little girl Rambo from the hills of West Virginia who went down fighting," she told the lawmakers investigating what families are told about how soldiers die. NFL star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman had not died a hero under enemy fire, his brother Kevin said, but died by friendly fire. And in both cases, the chain...
...captured and made to stand trial before the most powerful man in Virginia, an aging Algonquian chief the English knew as Powhatan. He wore a raccoon cloak, long strings of pearls and was attended by women, warriors, shamans and priests, Smith wrote, recalling that Powhatan projected "such a grave and majestical countenance as drew me into admiration to see such state in a naked savage...
...perhaps the most significant discovery was a lone grave with the remains of a ceremonial staff inside. Kelso believes it is the resting place of Bartholomew Gosnold, captain of the Godspeed, who died on Aug. 22, 1607, after a "three-week illness." DNA tests on the skeleton have been inconclusive...
...even suing one university. The rapidly expanding student loan crisis has, in short, revealed that colleges work in students’ best interests with surprising irregularity. Instead, the colleges all too frequently collude with lenders to inflate already-healthy profits, or at the very least, create the appearance of grave impropriety. These activities have struck such a nerve because students blindly put trust in their schools to lead them through the jungle that is the loan industry. Sending a student to a preferred loan company—essentially guaranteeing that company business— when that company does not provide...