Word: karens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gritty, wet snow fell on the day the town said goodbye to Karen Clarke and Leroy Brown Jr. The ice closed schools and slicked streets in Bridgeport, Conn., and residents slid helplessly and angrily through their daily tasks. So by the time 600 arrived for the funeral at Refuge Temple Church of God, on Main Street, it seemed as though God had forgotten this place, a small city with big-city problems. "Violence is let loose like a wild boar on our streets!" thundered the Rev. Courtney Williams, a phalanx of fellow ministers behind him hollering agreement, along with worshippers...
...week earlier, Leroy--an eight-year-old whom family called B.J.--was shot in the back and head as he and his mother raced up their stairs, trying in vain to escape an intruder. His mom Karen Clarke, 30, was shot twice in the back. It looked like an execution, for B.J. was the star witness in a murder trial...
Everyone knows ELVIS PRESLEY met his future wife Priscilla while stationed in Germany in the late 1950s. News has surfaced that another underage girl captured his attention around that time, only she didn't find out about it until 39 years later. In 1960 Karen Golz, then a 10-year-old German schoolgirl, sent Elvis an effusively admiring letter in which she promised to marry him and informed him of her upcoming birthday. Elvis, touched, penned a return missive: "Dear Karen, may you have a very happy 11th Birthday and a lot of 'Teddy Bears.' Your Friend, Elvis," and gave...
...Reported by Ann Blackman, Karen Tumulty and Mark Thompson/Emporia, Jay Branegan, James Carney and John F. Dickerson/Washington
...considering extending her career in politics, too: as a New York senator. Leading Democrats in the state are touting her name, hoping she could succeed to the seat of retiring Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 2000. But don't hold your breath, say TIME Washington correspondents Karen Tumulty and John Dickerson. "It makes for interesting conversation," says Tumulty, "and Mrs. Clinton doesn't mind the boost she gets from the speculation, but it's hard to imagine she would actually...