Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then on Oct. 27, the truth emerged. Police had searched Zile's apartment and discovered blood. She had implicated her husband John, who led them to a 5- ft.-deep grave behind a local K Mart. Christina had never been to the Swap Shop. One night six weeks before her "disappearance," police affidavits report, John had beaten her on the body and face as her mother watched. John later added that Pauline joined in the beating. When Christina started screaming, he stopped her mouth with a towel. When she choked and went into seizures, he says, he tried to perform...
...three singers strive to connect themselves to old, grand traditions. They use Celtic imagery, and Keineg sings one song, the stately O Iesu Mawr, in Gaelic; O'Connor quotes William Butler Yeats on the liner notes of her CD, and O'Riordan pays him tribute in the song Yeats' Grave. This awareness of a particular past helps distinguish their songs from the typical rootless algae of pop music. In his poem A Coat, Yeats wrote, "I made my song a coat/ Covered with embroideries/ Out of old mythologies/ From heel to throat." As modern women conscious of an Irish heritage...
Susan Smith-- the South Carolina woman who faked a carjacking and then sent her sons to a watery grave in a lake -- decided at the last minute not to stay in the car as her children plunged to their deaths. Smith -- still on 24-hour suicide watch -- made the statements in her confession, released by her lawyer to CNN. "I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car, ready to go down that ramp into the water and I did go part way, but I stopped," CNN says she wrote. "I went again and I stopped...
...those ideas with which we strongly disagree, without reflecting on them or considering their merits. When we deal with unpopular statements in this manner, when we append the label "offensive" to any argument with which we don't want to grapple, we place free speech and liberal education in grave danger...
Myers is right. Reeves, in claiming to be the victim of racism and homophobia, is trivializing these grave issues. If he truly has nothing to hide, and has committed no indiscretions, then he certainly shouldn't be afraid of making his affairs public...