Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lyle has been painting a picture of Jose and Kitty as monsters who ran their sons' lives in the tiniest detail, crushing any aspirations to independence by handing out cruel punishments for trivial offenses. Much worse, he testified, when he was seven, Jose "would be in the bathroom, and he'd put me on my knees. He'd guide me in all my movements, and I'd have oral sex with him." Also, "he used objects, a toothbrush, some sort of utensil brush . . . he'd take my pants off, lay me on the bed. He'd have a tube...
...upstairs and wait for him. Lyle screamed, "No, you're not going to touch Erik!" Jose summoned Kitty to the TV room and closed the doors. Said Lyle: "I thought this was the end. I thought they were going inside the TV room to plan to kill us." He ran upstairs to get Erik. Both brothers got their guns, and blam! And blam! again and 13 more times...
...other hand, Lyle has not exactly shown the brothers to be lovable enough to deserve outright acquittal. Witness part of his testimony about killing Kitty: "I could see somebody moving where my mother should be. So I reloaded. I ran around and shot my mom. I shot her close." The betting now is that the two will be convicted of a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter or second-degree murder, with acquittal an outside chance. But nobody ever knows what a jury, let alone two juries, will do when the door closes...
...narrative gets richer. A decade ago, Diller brilliantly ran Paramount under Martin Davis, and the antipathy today is intense and mutual, although not, according to two entertainment power brokers close to Diller, an important impetus for the current takeover attempt -- just a "cherry on the sundae," says...
...other was the World Muslim League, supported by Saudi Arabia. Linked to them were smaller groups of activists and influential individuals, including charismatic recruiter Abdullah Azzam, a Jordanian-born Palestinian who brought in hundreds of zealous volunteers, and his New York-based agent, Mustafa Shalabi, who ran the Alkifar Refugee Center in Brooklyn, known as "the Jihad office." Both Azzam and Shalabi were murdered in 1991. Another key figure was Saudi financier Osama bin Laden, who fought with the mujahedin himself and brought many others to the cause. Arab governments under attack by extremists often claim that the returned Afghan...