Word: nephew
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Five of us -- me, my three brothers and my 18-year-old nephew -- survived the "ethnic cleansing" of Muslims from the town of Carakovo in mid-June by hiding in the bushes. We stayed around there for 10 days or so, until we really had nothing left to eat. Then my older brother said we had to surrender, and we listened to him. The Serbian military police picked us up, questioned us at the Keraterm ceramics factory and then took us to a camp at Trnopolje. They beat us until there was blood coming from our noses and mouths...
...others were scared. But we had hope because they told us the buses were under the protection of the United Nations forces in Croatia and were heading for the Croatian border. As we were getting on, my sister-in-law pleaded that she and my 16-year-old nephew be let on too. One of my brothers stayed behind...
...middle of the bus. When it was about my turn, they opened the back door and started taking people from there too. My brother and my younger nephew were taken out, and we heard the shots. The guard nudged me with his rifle butt and told me to take two with me. As I rose for the door, I thought my other brother, Sakib, was with me. But then I tilted my head and saw him and my older nephew lying on the floor, crying...
...deceased, Raymond was a Hot Springs, Arkansas, businessman and a Republican with political connections. His lawyer, Henry Britt, also a Republican, served as a principal source for the Times piece. According to Britt and a surviving member of the local draft board, Raymond lobbied board members on his nephew's behalf. He also secured a place in a Navy reserve unit, though Bill never applied for the opening. The story appears to explain why Clinton remained a civilian for 10 months, though classified 1-A. The following year he obtained a formal deferment by agreeing to join an ROTC program...
...Independence refers to a deity, but only in the most generic terms -- "Nature's God," the "Creator," "Providence" -- calculated not to offend the doubters and deists (who believed that God had designed the universe, then left it to nature to run). Jefferson was a renowned doubter, urging his nephew to "question with boldness even the existence of a God." John Adams was at least a skeptic, as were of course the revolutionary firebrands Tom Paine and Ethan Allen. Naturally, they designed a republic in which they themselves would have a place...