Word: heart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stealthily into death, guarding his secrets to the end. The teenage guerrillas of the Khmer Rouge who had kept him under "house arrest" since a show trial last year blandly informed reporters that one of the world's most notorious mass murderers had died peacefully Wednesday night of a heart attack, discovered when his wife came to tuck in his mosquito...
...former Khmer Rouge cadres now running the government in Phnom Penh--had good reason to prefer his death to a revealing trial. But the 73-year-old's health had been failing. A stroke in 1995 paralyzed much of his left side, he was taking medicine for a heart complaint, and he suffered from chronic malaria. For the past three weeks he had been hustled between safe houses near the Thai border to avoid shelling. As government forces aided by growing legions of Khmer Rouge defectors closed in, Pol Pot must have realized the end was near...
...bigger risk. Home mortgages, for example, are fairly riskless propositions for lenders, but the reward is tiny--perhaps 6% a year in interest payments. On the other hand, lending money to the government of Malaysia is fairly lucrative, but it is not an investment for the faint of heart--the double-digit interest rate brings with it risks of a devaluation, a government coup or an outright default...
...Microsoft. See! its lawyers said, Lessig has already set his heart against our company. But Gates' gray suits were gunning for the professor even before they unearthed the smoking E-mail. They argued from the start that Judge Jackson had no right to give such power to an outside adviser, especially one they hadn't vetted. Jackson dismissed their complaints as "trivial" and "defamatory," but the appeals court found them more credible and in February ordered Lessig to stop working until the matter could be argued in court...
...educator, I take the death of teacher Shannon Wright personally. Last year a former colleague died of a heart attack while attempting to break up a fight at his school. A teacher in the same county was murdered a few years earlier by an emotionally disturbed student. The deaths of these teachers are tragic, senseless and unexplainable. And every time I give a student an F, I wonder if this student will be the demented one who will blow me away. TARA EISENHAUER EBERSOLE Baltimore...