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About 10 members of the Harvard Divinity School Peace Affinity Group raised the three-foot high crosses as a "personal expression of our grief" for the atrocities committed by the Contras in Nicaragua, said Sharon D. Welch, assistant professor of theology...
...disinterestedly on the reader's lap. The tale "Friday Night/Saturday Morning" continues with this lack of concern, though with more violent images. It stars four men who act as a death squad randomly mutilating strangers just for the hell of it. Clinical descriptions of gunshot wounds mingle with the grief of victims' relatives...
...procession through the capital. They escorted the flag-draped coffin of Evelio Javier, 43, a regional Aquino campaign chairman who had been brutally gunned down days earlier in the province of Antique. Though far smaller in scale, the Javier funeral demonstration reminded many Filipinos of the huge outpourings of grief that followed the 1983 assassination of Aquino's husband Benigno Aquino...
...first reaction was shock, horror, grief. The second, and almost reflexive, response by public officials to the Challenger catastrophe was determination to push on with an ambitious program of manned space flights. Thus President Reagan, speaking to the nation within hours of the tragedy, pledged, "We'll continue our quest in space. There will be more shuttle flights and more shuttle crews and, yes, more volunteers, more civilians, more teachers in space." Next day William Graham, NASA's acting administrator, asserted that "the space shuttle is our principal space transportation system; it will remain our principal space transportation system...
After a night of frenzied dancing, Zhen Zhen came to grief when her boyfriend entered the room while she was taking a bath. Yen Li, who yearned to be an actress, lost her virtue when a wily actor insidiously told her that Ingrid Bergman and Sophia Loren devoted their lives--and their bodies--to art. The pivotal event of Li Na's life occurred when her date tricked her into watching a porn movie. "She was shocked by the movements on the screen, and she felt warm and suffocated. As she was about to unbutton her collar to breathe...