Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When hundreds of Albanians braved police gunfire last week to seek refuge in a dozen foreign embassies in Tirana, few diplomats doubted their desire to leave Eastern Europe's last redoubt of doctrinaire communism. But many also suspected that the diplomatic missions were being used in a power struggle between...
The first blast erupted in the pump room near the stern of the Norwegian- registered Mega Borg during the routine but dangerous process of lightering, transferring oil to smaller ships. The fires spread and set off more explosions, spewing burning oil and geysers of dense black smoke. With its stern...
Even soup kitchens are as much a safety net as a final refuge for the down- and-out. Ptasinska, for example, has just borrowed nearly $1,000 from a privately financed special fund to set up a small business ironing sheets for hospitals and other institutions. She is counting on...
There are few powers or burdens akin to the clemency laws that force Governors to be the final arbiters for the condemned. Judges and juries can take refuge in their assigned roles in the legal system. The executioner can say with truth that he is only doing his job. But...
Pre-Vatican Council, aspiring Jesuits moved through 15 years of training in lockstep. Healy spent four years studying theology at Belgium's Louvain University. Seven years later he went abroad again, in pursuit of a Ph.D. at Oxford, and if there is an invisible monastery in his life, a spiritual...