Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will help Lamar," said Courchesne, who like Alexander was wearing a red and black plaid flannel shirt. "Let [the other candidates] fling the mud, [Alexander] will walk above them...
...Nobody does anything but sling mud--I really want issues, not fighting," said Janet Boyden, taking a break from a round of bowling in Raymond...
...Children and Parents bridles at the Human Rights Watch claim that a high mortality rate persists at a facility identified as Henan province's sole orphanage. Neilson says that if this is the same institution she works with--who knows? the report claims the location is "unclear"--the mud-walled building has been razed and a new facility is being built. When it is completed, WACAP will help establish a rehabilitation unit for disabled kids. That pioneering effort has nothing to do with adoption, which admittedly benefits only the few. It is a self-sustaining project that speaks to China...
...hostages held as human shields by Chechen rebels seeking safe passage home after their raid on the town of Kizlar. "A convoy of 11 buses, packed with hungry, exhausted women and children, and two trucks filled up with corpses, sits in the lazily falling snow on the frozen mud road," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "Some 250 Chechen rebels, their guns and bazookas at ready and their fingers itchy on triggers, have deployed a defense perimeter around the convoy. The corpses in the trucks are their slain accomplices. Some 25 Russian tanks have taken the Chechen defense perimeter...
...apparently made the remarks while addressing his soldiers," says Thompson. "Sure, he was skating along the edges of propriety, but these are soldiers being sent halfway around the world on a mission that doesn't have much public support. A commander trying to fire up guys living in the mud and the snow can't be held to the same standard as one addressing a black-tie dinner...