Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week after police shot and killed Margaret L. Mitchell, a college-educated black woman who had been homeless since developing a mental illness, after she reportedly lunged at them with a screwdriver. It is why the street-crimes unit in New York--four of whose members are charged with murder in the shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African street merchant--have stopped and frisked thousands of blacks and Hispanics for no reason except their color. It is why many law-abiding members of minority groups are convinced they have more to fear from cops like Volpe than they...
...many countertenors have small voices that are eerily sexless, hardly what Handel had in mind for such heroic roles as Sextus Pompey in Julius Caesar (the vehicle for Daniels' Met debut), who kills the king of Egypt in revenge for the murder of his father. That's one reason that Daniels makes so powerful an impression. His full-blooded alto is big enough to bounce off the back wall of the Met, with a cut and thrust that is wholly masculine, yet when he sings softly, you couldn't ask for a sweeter sound...
...televised trial involving "that basketball player." Mullen's distance from the case that compelled the universe won her a spot on the jury of Simpson's civil trial. Here, in an affecting hour-long monologue, Mullen, chillingly, economically, reduces the Simpson affair to what it was: a grisly murder...
DIED. GEORGETTE SMITH, 42, shooting victim; of gunshot wounds sustained in March; after being removed from life support; in Orlando, Fla. Smith's mother, Shirley Egan, 68, had already been charged with attempted murder for the shooting and now may face a murder charge. Egan allegedly shot her daughter after overhearing her talk about moving Egan to a nursing home...
...fundamental issue in Kosovo is the rule of law--whether one group of people can rob, murder and displace another with impunity [WORLD, May 3]. Russia is another Slav nation, far more powerful, also chafing from its loss of empire. What lessons will it learn if nato fails to restore the Kosovar Albanians to their rightful homes? I am ashamed of Congress for its vote denying support. A victory is absolutely vital. GERALD K. MELIS Wardsboro...