Word: rita
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week, when the President said the war on terrorism would be a fight that lasts years, he should have added that some of its most pitched battles will be fought in our courts. And in our own divided hearts and minds. --Reported by Matthew Cooper and Viveca Novak/Washington, Rita Healy/Denver, Kathie Klarreich/Miami and Jeffery Ressner/Los Angeles
...friend pulled Ralston aside, according to the Aspen paper, and said, "Aron, I think you were headed for trouble; if this hadn't happened now, it could have been--or will be--deadly." It seems Aron Ralston has cheated death again, but at quite a price. --Reported by Rita Healy/Denver and Peta Owens-Liston/Salt Lake City
...wanted to roll over a retirement account, her bank was prepared to charge her $50 in fees, which she considered "outrageous." So she sent the money to her credit union, Bellco, which charged nothing. And, she says, "they were friendlier about it." --With reporting by Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis and Rita Healy/Denver
...GERMANY: TERRORISM, POLITICS, PROTEST. In association with Boston’s Goethe Institut Inter Nationes, the Film Archive is presenting a series of films influenced by the Red Army Faction’s (RAF) 1977 wave of terrorism in West Germany. Included in the series are The Legends of Rita, Volker Schlondorffs acclaimed 1999 film about a terrorist forced into hiding when her organization crumbles, and Marianne and Julianne, Margarethe von Trotta’s 1981 examination of the bond between two sisters—one of them an imprisoned revolutionary—during the time of the terrorism. Friday...
...teaching hip-hop at the campus gym. "I had a perfect childhood. I was the perfect student. Nothing bad ever happened to me until this," she says, recalling her experience. "But I got through it." Now it's the academy's turn to do the same. --With reporting by Rita Healy/Colorado Springs