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...Fork and went swaggering around the Kentucky election grounds. Whatever the reason, the furies were unambiguously loosed on a whisky-sodden day 100 years ago next August. One of McCoy's sons taunted an unarmed Ellison Hatfield, and Ellison's riposte was intemperate and unprintable. Seventeen knife thrusts and one revolver shot later, Ellison lay mortally wounded. The eye-for-an-eye-for-an-eye retaliation began: three McCoys were captured by Hatfields under the command of Ellison's brother Devil Anse, tied to a pawpaw bush, and shot to death. The skirmishing ended with the century...
With a finely honed cynicism worthy of Screwtape, the report's writer even tries to separate the clerical sheep from the goats, offering a "typology of the episcopate." Seventeen members of the hierarchy, including Russian Orthodox Patriarch Pimen, are characterized as "not personally involved in spreading the influence of Orthodoxy among the population" Then there is a second, troublesome stratum of 23, "loyal to our state" but all too intent on expanding church influence. A third, highly doubtful group of 17 is suspected of actually trying to evade the laws on cults...
...Seventeen months ago, Granville led the lemmings of Wall Street into a 30-point gain in a single day with an order to buy stocks. Then in January he set off a 23.80-point drop in one trading day with the command "sell everything." Even though stocks continued generally up for nearly five months after that before they started their current down phase, Granville insisted that he had the magic formula for Wall Street...
...tops of mountains. Mt. Jefferson, perched between Mt. Adams and Mt. Washington on top of the Northeast. There's nothing to block the view; the world is a great dome with the Connecticut and the Androscoggin running fast and white at its edges. Five thousand, five hundred and seventeen feet below...
Stung by worldwide condemnation of the seaside executions in April 1980 that followed his ouster of President William R. Tolbert, Liberia's new head of state, Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, promised a quick return to civilian rule and a halt to the killings. Seventeen months later, Doe, 30, remains in power-and the killing has resumed. In June, 13 soldiers were executed after confessing to a plot to overthrow Doe and his People's Redemption Council (P.R.C.). Last month five members of the P.R.C. itself, including Doe's deputy, Thomas Weh Syen, were shot after...