Word: hating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to police, Burden and James died because three soldiers stationed at Fort Bragg, the huge Army base adjacent to Fayetteville, decided it was a good night to commit a hate crime. Private Malcolm Wright, 21, Private Burmeister, 20, and Specialist Meadows, 21, had been drinking and nightclubbing when they allegedly drove to Campbell Terrace to harass blacks. The soldiers, members of the 82nd Airborne Division, had reportedly gone on such excursions before. This time, as Meadows waited in the car, Wright and Burmeister allegedly picked their quarry at random, accosted the couple and killed them. Meadows has been charged...
...experience of Hodzic and thousands like him has left a legacy of hate and fear in Bosnia that makes the ideals of the peace accord--refugees returning home, justice for war criminals, a multiethnic government--look like fairy-tale dreaming. The horrors of the 44-month war have permeated down to the smallest village, in cycles of brutality begetting retribution begetting counterretribution. It seems idle to think Muslims, Serbs and Croats can ever again live together peaceably. Far more likely: if the U.S. and NATO troops pull out in a year or so, they will leave behind a country split...
Since being falsely identified as the author of the message, which includes racially motivated threats and offensive jokes and rhymes, Krause has received hate mail and physical threats, said Burns...
...Roots of Violence." And while the themes of EAA's postering campaign--homosexuality, racism, sexism, and classism--are not the foci for Annual Action week, they are issues that are intertwined and contribute to prejudice and social injustice, EAA leaders said. Other issues addressed during the week will be hate crimes, and domestic, economic and youth violence...
...MATH CURSE, by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (Viking; $16.99), is a great book for kids still too young to know they hate math. Even the dedication is fiendish: "If the sum of my nieces and nephews equals 15, and their product equals 54, and I have more nephews than nieces, how many nephews and how many nieces is this book dedicated to?" O.K., 9 and 6. But when the teacher, Mrs. Fibonacci, counts "1,1,2,3,5,8,13..." what are the next five numbers in her puzzle...