Word: murdered
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...create a fascinating drama that explores the difficulties of reconciliation in many of today’s intractable conflicts. Focusing on the fictional meeting of real-life Irish citizens Joe Griffin (James Nesbitt, “Millions”) and Alistair Little (Liam Neeson) 33 years after the murder that connected them, the film traces the human cost of violence that permeated a society. Elders are the villains in Hirschbiegel’s vision. It is their inability to forgive what has been done to them and their willingness to compromise their own children that fuels this cycle...
...third defendant, Jabrai J. Copney, 20, has been in custody in Massachusetts since May 21. He was indicted on June 26 by a Middlesex Superior Court Grand Jury on counts of first degree murder, accessory after the fact of murder, attempt to commit a crime, armed robbery, and possession of a firearm...
Former Harvard students Brittany J. Smith and Chanequa N. Campbell, both originally members of the class of 2009, were linked to the murder but have not been charged criminally...
...arsenal of democracy," the nexus of technology and innovation. Today it struggles for its life: not one national chain operates a grocery store in the entire 138-sq.-mi. city limits of Detroit. The estimated functional illiteracy rate in the city limits hovers near 50%. The unsolved-murder rate is about 70%, and unemployment is around an astonishing...
...treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services. The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent...