Word: ran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with as many as 180 people packed into trucks designed to carry sacks of food. Some admitted to bribing army commanders to get on; others fought for places, pushing aside those too weak to retaliate. A little boy who survived a fall from one of the trucks en route ran screaming alongside the roaring convoy until a Serb army major hoisted him back on board. "When you see the refugees you only have to imagine what it's like for the people inside," said Simon Mardel, a British doctor who has witnessed the hunger and disease of Srebrenica. "They...
...snow to Srebrenica. "We slept on the street around fires for five days," she says, showing her blackened palms as proof. They managed to procure some food aid parachuted out of U.S. airplanes by rushing to the drop sites with thousands of other hungry refugees. But that soon ran out. "For the past three days we didn't eat anything. It was like we were in the forests again except we were in a town, in front of U.N. soldiers...
Still, when The Star ran the story in January 1992, more mainstream news organizations, including "Nightline," The New York Times and most others aired or printed the allegations as well...
...special are exhibits an evening of literature and music, this wonderful poetry and music event in a church...and I was just swept away by this..I proposed shortly thereafter to the Overseers that we create a Committee for the Arts. That was kind of my platform when I ran for the Overseers-that there be somebody from the Harvard alumni who was in the world of the arts...
...impressed his colleagues that he beat out two contenders, including the chairman, for the top job in 1985. He promptly showed his shrewd, dealmaking side by setting up what is euphemistically called the Member Services group on his staff. Aide Larry Smith, now counselor-designee at the Pentagon, ran what was really an old-fashioned political pork operation, assuring committee members that their interests would be looked after in exchange for their vote on committee affairs. Committee members who went along got along. Those who crossed him, like former Representative Albert Bustamante, found their pet projects unfunded. "We played hardball...