Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hour-long appearance before a packed cafeteria at Oyster River High School, Forbes made repeated jabs at the "fearmongers in Washington"--including rival candidate U.S. Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.)--whose ads he criticized as "full of bogus misinformation...
...cover under rickety stalls. Suzanne Nyahimana, 45, was hit almost immediately, her forearm shattered. Frantically rounding up her five children--her husband had been killed in fighting several months earlier--she fled with them from the northwestern Burundian village of Nyabitaka into the hills, eventually crossing the Rusizi River to a refugee camp in neighboring Zaire. "I will never go back," Nyahimana said last week of her homeland, waving the stump that is all that remains of her right arm. "There is nothing left...
There is a cutting, angry quality to almost everything Kincaid has written, some recent, eerily serene essays on gardening excepted. Her primal theme, repeated well past the point of obsession, has been her abiding resentment of her mother. A remarkable short-story collection, At the Bottom of the River, and two autobiographical novels, Annie John and Lucy, have not been enough to wash her feelings out to sea, and she restates them again in Autobiography. Anyone who imagines that tensions between husband and wife exceed those between parent and child is not paying attention to Jamaica Kincaid...
Swimmable River...
...While the spill is not likely to have an adverse long-term impact on the river, we need to be absolutely positive that it doesn't happen again," DeVillars said. "Mistakes happen, but many of them are preventable. We've set a goal of making the Charles fishable and swimmable by the year 2005 and EPA is committed to achieving...