Word: questioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brenda to surrender, she finally decided it was time to end what she had called "fun." She calmly walked out of the house, put her gun [down], went back inside..."Why did she do it?" asked an eight-year-old boy. Unfortunately, no one in authority could answer that question...
...McCain's best asset is the story of his own harrowing treatment at the hands of the North Vietnamese, which not only lends credibility to his call for all-out war against Milosevic but also weighs on the mind of any rival who might question his integrity. On the floor of the Senate last week, McCain declared he would share the responsibility for American lives lost in a ground war against Serbia. "But," he went on, "I would rather face that sad burden than hide from my conscience because I sought an ambiguous political position to seek shelter behind." Words...
...increases exponentially when another person comes online. Thus a network of 10 people is at least four times as valuable as one with five. What this means is that every extra AOL subscriber is worth more than every extra cable subscriber. How much more is the umpty-billion-dollar question, because that new customer can be marketed to, advertised to, sold to, and may even be the impetus for a whole new form of commerce that will make the network more valuable still. "The growth is incredibly viral," says Wetherell, using one of his favorite words. "Online companies tend...
...body of her child. Flip: children running from the Columbine school. Flip: refugees dragging themselves up a mountain road. Flip: Serbian mass murderers. Flip: "Trench Coat Mafia" mass murderers. Two lines of categorical hatred meet at a point before our eyes, but it is imponderable still, out of the question, unreal--all that death...
Last week, as the boy ran into the living room, Pincham scooped him up and held him facedown across his knees. "Have you been good in school? Have you been obeying your teachers? Have you been nice to your parents?" Each question was punctuated with a tickle, so the boy's "Yes!" responses were sung in breathless hysteria. It was a lighthearted moment in a year that has been heavy with pain and injustice. As the boy dashed out of the living room, the adults quickly turned sober again. Rosetta Crawford, the boy's grandmother and family matriarch, took...