Word: painful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last February, a student at the Virginia Military Institute was hospitalized with severe pain and chills. He had felt fine just a day earlier...
...HUPD dispatched police to an altercation at Au Bon Pain. The individual causing the disturbance had left upon the officers' arrival...
...Then the pain began...
...novel. It's 1935, and we're on a Southern prison's death row, where the only recreation is watching a mouse commandeer the corridor. Enter a new inmate, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a giant black man with a gift of preternatural empathy; he can literally suck the pain out of people. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), the chief guard of E Block, is in awe of this white magic. He benefits from it, uses it to help a friend and, eventually, pays...
Most child-custody wars mean profit for some (the lawyers for both sides) and pain for others (the child and his parents). In the case of Elian Gonzalez, too, the winners are the ones pulling the strings, but in this case it is the Cuban government and the large Cuban-exile community in Florida who are reaping the benefits of a family tragedy. That situation became even more apparent Monday as U.S. negotiators prepared to meet with their Cuban counterparts for biannual talks on immigration amid a frenzy of anti-American protests sparked off by the case...