Word: personalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sara Jane Olson--her maiden name, she said. But last week, as she was driving her Plymouth minivan to teach English as a second language, FBI agents arrested her on 24-year-old California charges. They called her Kathleen Ann Soliah. She never denied they had the right person. All she asked for was a lawyer...
...Chris Coleman, a St. Paul city councilman: "It was a different era. It's not a reflection of who we are now." Others are indignant at her treatment by authorities. Says neighbor Anne Fabie: "We send people to prison to rehabilitate them so they can become the kind of person Sara is today. It would serve no purpose to incarcerate her." That depends on whether imprisonment is reformation or punishment. Says John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted: "She's led a good life and done good deeds, but if you have tried to kill cops, you're going...
...victims are beaten to death by blunt instruments, which can include brutal blows by the killer's hands and feet. Says Mike Cox, spokesman for the department of public safety in Texas: "It takes a lot of rage to beat someone to death if the killer knows the person. But to have that kind of rage against a stranger is spooky...
Change the game!" You will often hear that phrase shouted on a soccer field, words that tell the person with the ball to take the play in a different direction. And change the game is exactly what the U.S. team did on Saturday at the opening match of the Women's World Cup. The Americans put on an unprecedented show of girl power before some 79,000 soccer moms and dads and daughters and sons who jammed Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.--the largest crowd ever to watch a women's sporting event. Not only did the stylish Yanks...
...return to their well-kept homes each day with aching backs and cracked hands, and then they take turns pulling night duty, trying to pass pride of ownership and safe streets on to the grandchildren. "We've been burglarized 10 times, and nobody ever sees a vehicle or a person," says Tom Sapien, 51, who peers into the twilight from Martinez's backseat and misses nothing. "People are afraid to get involved...