Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next call is a hang-up; perhaps it is a prank, more likely it is someone who got tired of waiting. As part of KISS 108's ongoing commitment to keep up with its listener's interests. David must record each call, keeping track of the caller's approximate age and gender: "We want to know what songs people want to listen to at what time." he explains...
...waiting list or pull whatever strings it's not too late to pull. The majority of us, however, react the way any normal person would to the news that we're not wanted: we tear the letters into shreds or bury them deep in our desk drawers, and hang out heads for at least the remainder of the day. No matter if there is a official explanation-- "I'm only a sophomore and they asked for seniors"--or an easy rationalization-- "I didn't want the job anyway; who wants to stay in Boston for the summer?"--rejection still hurts...
CAPE TOWN: The "great crocodile" appears to have caught himself in a trap of his own making. In choosing to hang tough and reject a deal allowing secret testimony to South Africa's Truth Commission, former president P.W. Botha found himself defending a contempt of court case that will likely cover the same ground. "In the end, Botha's simply doing it the hard way," says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "The commission will present all the evidence against him in order to explain why he was subpoenaed, and Botha will have to respond to that evidence...
After nearly three years here and with virtually no warning, I was forced last week to hang up my keyboard. The reason is an insidious computer-related syndrome called Repetitive Strain Injury, for short RSI. But who would have guessed it? Sure, I work on a newspaper, I check my e-mail frequently and I concentrate in the social sciences, but my knowledge of computers is fairly limited and like the average student I don't spend more time at my keyboard than I have...
...families didn't know each other, and they don't know how the boys know each other," says William Howard, Mitchell's court-appointed attorney. Says Alisha Golden, who used to sit next to Drew (no relation) in English class, "Mitch and Drew were not friends. They didn't hang out." While the boys were assigned seats next to each other on the bus, the bus driver doesn't recall seeing them together often. Mitch's mother says Drew had never visited their home. "The name [Andrew Golden] had never come up," says Woodard. "As a matter of fact...