Word: lynching
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...Bruce Crawford, the SNP's local candidate, brandishes no broadsword, greeting shoppers with more mundane vows to revoke an unpopular local services tax. This election is "not actually about independence," says Peter Lynch, professor of politics at Stirling University. "People want more from their Parliament, but they don't necessarily want that yet, if they ever...
Heed the commanders on the ground, Bush told lawmakers, but that plea was chilled by the testimony in another hearing room. The war's icons spoke in person and from the grave, honored and pitied as heroes and pawns. Jessica Lynch was no "little girl Rambo from the hills of West Virginia who went down fighting," she told the lawmakers investigating what families are told about how soldiers die. NFL star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman had not died a hero under enemy fire, his brother Kevin said, but died by friendly fire. And in both cases, the chain...
...junior crew Elyse Dolbec said. “The breeze was tricky but we were able to figure it out. The forecast was unusual, a condition we’ve never seen before.”Senior skipper Clay Johnson and senior crew Kristen Lynch helped Harvard’s A-division to a fifth-place finish, while junior captain skipper Kyle Kovacs skippered B-division to fourth place with the help of Dolbec.“Sunday was different, the conditions were sort of harder to figure out,” Dolbec said...
...Conversation with Eddie Palmieri” on April 13, moderated by host of WBUR-FM’s “¡Con Salsa!” José Massó, and a concert in Sanders Theatre with the Harvard Jazz Band and guest artist Brian Lynch. The Office of the Arts recognized Palmieri for his immense contribution to the formation of the Latin jazz genre by mapping traditional Latin dance beats into an American jazz context. “When I started, there was no Latin Jazz category, and I took an octet and showed the importance...
...found out there had been a shooting on the campus and they were investigating it. Then we got on our cell phones and we kind of picked it up live as it came to us in news feeds." Others saw the police activity and were mystified. Dustin Lynch, a sophomore, was on the drill field. , an open meadow in the center of the Virginia Tech campus, in front of Norris at about 9:15 when he saw "an unbelievable amount of police force speeding around? from all different directions. Ambulance and police cars met at Norris Hall and surrounded...