Word: mass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trucks responding to a fire at 3 Bow St. stopped traffic on Mass. Ave. for about two hours Saturday evening...
Police directed traffic and diverted city bus routes away from Mass. Ave. and Bow Street for over two hours...
...Washington and other capitals are starting to take seriously. It is very close to what happened to another ex-President, Chile's General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, in a London hospital in October. Pinochet may end up being shipped off to Spain to stand trial on charges of torture and mass murder. The families of his thousands of victims are rightly cheering, and human-rights activists are delighted that the world may no longer be safe for retired tyrants. But officials in perfectly upstanding governments note that nowhere in the rules now coming into play is it written that they...
...took a ruling in Britain's highest court that Pinochet was not covered by official immunity to highlight a dramatic but almost unnoticed evolution under way in international law. The premise that national leaders cannot get away with mass murder and torture has been on the books since the Nuremberg and Tokyo war-crimes trials and is reinforced by resolutions at the U.N. It's also backed by international treaties banning genocide, torture and terrorism...
...gigantic monuments of Rameses II provide no evidence of the enslavement of the children of Israel in Egypt. Indeed, Israel does not appear in Egyptian records until the reign of Rameses' son and successor Merneptah. By then it is clearly a nation, not a wandering mass of refugees. But some scholars argue that a group of people called the 'Apiru in Egyptian chronicles may actually have included the Hebrews. And they point out a papyrus fragment that may show that Semitic peoples were used for forced labor. Between 1630 and 1521 B.C., Egypt was ruled by the Hyksos, a Semitic...