Word: horsemen
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...State Department to investigate the genocide in Darfur, talked about his interviews with refugees in Eastern Chad.He said he heard stories of five-year-old African boys being “slaughtered like animals” or thrown into burning tents by the Janjaweed, Arab militia of armed horsemen sponsored by the Sudanese government. He said locals rape women as they leave the refugee camps to gather firewood, sometimes gang-raping up to 60 women at a time with animal whips.“When you hear about this, you have a visceral reaction. You feel it in your...
...survived the four horsemen of the apocalypse - SARS, conflict in Iraq, terrorism and the economy," said Giovanni Bisignani, head of global airline-industry group IATA, last year. "But a fifth horseman, the price of oil, could deny us profitability yet again." Not in Ryanair's case. The Dublin-based budget airline's fuel bill doubled in the six months to October, but it still cheered earnings of $277 million last week, a year- on-year rise of 18%. CEO Michael O'Leary's course of squeezing nonfuel costs and pushing up passenger volumes will "see [Ryanair] through an awful...
...last four years have been what I would describe as the four horsemen of the apocalypse for the travel industry,” Carrier said...
DIED. James H. ("Sleepy Jim") Crowley, 83, last of the great "Four Horsemen" backfield that led Notre Dame to a 19-1 record in the 1923-24 seasons; in Scranton, Pa. The small (160 lbs.), swift Crowley was immortalized with his teammates by Sportswriter Grantland Rice: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden...
...First up are a few striking examples of that ancient civilization. Much of the first gallery is dominated by a cavalcade of miniature bronze chariots and horsemen. Painstakingly detailed, with detachable saddles on the horses and mobile wheels on the chariots, they give a sense of the authority of Han rulers at their height at the beginning of the 3rd century. Also of interest from this period are pieces of carved jade, examples of an exacting art form that reached its apogee in the Han era. Jade carving was largely abandoned in the period that followed...