Word: rural
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rural Illinois a man murdered his best friend and cut off his ear with a razor, a symbolic execution. The murdered man was sleeping with the killer's wife, who had left her husband and taken the children. In divorce court, where she denied her adultery, she was awarded all her husband's money, leaving him with nothing but sorrow and rage. All night he hid out near the barn, and when his best friend came to do the milking, he shot him point-blank. Then he weighted himself down, waded into the river and put a bullet...
...Traditionally, underrepresented minority doctors go back to serve communities of their own minority," she says. "This is important because their is a need for doctors in inner city and rural locations...
Woolley says Asian-American professionals are well-represented in the medical and business fields, and agreed that the medical community struggles to find doctors to serve inner-city and rural communities...
Sedaris speaks of all the figures in Naked with great enthusiasm, particularly his family members. Describing the genesis of the book, he claims that "for my mom, it was a gesture of affection. These are stories the way she told stories." His childhood in rural North Carolina apparently offered him plenty of time to hear about and observe people being crazy and stupid...
DIED. THE REV. MAC CHARLES JONES, 47, Baptist minister and bold architect of the National Council of Churches' efforts to investigate the burning of rural black churches throughout the South and awaken public outrage at the arson; of a blood clot; in Dallas...