Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chernin's eloquent and passionate prose is divided into four main sections, beginning with a recount of her arrival and establishment at the kibbutz. In the beginning, the narrator, "I, looks back on Kim Chernin en route to Araht, in a resort town near the Sea of Galilee, in a tone replete of distaste. "If I could like that Chernin, that woman I was twenty years ago, if it were easy, there wouldn't be this gap that has grown between us. There would be an enduring I, a continuity. Something must have happened along the way, a wrenching more...
...that the LA media catches onto this drama right away, and a lot of the information we get is from accounts of the chase on news shows. This is admittedly kind of funny at times, but unbelievably heavy-handed. Look, it screams, how the media and entertainment industry will resort to anything to produce copy! I get the message loud and clear, but I wonder if Charlie Sheen realizes just how ironically that message comes across...
That is certainly true. Five of the nine players in Coach Kathy Delaney Smith's rotation are freshmen or sophomores. But the timeless resort to the inexperience excuse is not the whole story...
...same thing as justifiable homicide. "We are of course pleased that the jury agreed with so much of our evidence," said chief prosecutor Ray Jahn. But U.S. District Judge Walter Smith Jr. instructed the jury to consider self-defense against the government agents as a justification for the Davidians' resort to gunfire, which may explain why only five of the 11 were found guilty of manslaughter. Four were adjudged to be innocent on all counts, and two were convicted of weapons charges. Pressed to explain the jury's decision, Jahn said that perhaps the panel thought the cult members...
Within hours of hearing about the massacre, Clinton asked the P.L.O. and the Israeli government to move to Washington the talks they had been conducting over the past five months in Paris, Cairo and the Egyptian resort town of Taba. He proposed the two sides keep their negotiators in the U.S. capital until they get not just an agreement to agree or an agreement in principle, but an i's-dotted, t's-crossed accord. Said the President: "We must prevent them ((fanatic extremists)) from extinguishing the hopes and aspirations of ordinary people for a life of peaceful existence...