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...private with his decision to rewrite the family history, it was harder to have to explain it in public, to defend her parents against the charge that their heroic story had been somehow airbrushed. Albright would tell a friend the night after the Post story broke that she felt shaken and somehow violated. The implications of the questioning--What did she know and when did she know it?--made it sound as though the story she was so proud of was somehow false, rather than incomplete. By the next day, she would be defending her parents to the New York...
This tragedy is especially traumatic for a country as small as Israel. To express the magnitude of the tragedy, a proportional loss of life in the United States would translate into 3500 dead. We as young people are especially shaken by the deaths for the young men were all of college...
...Travis, a Vietnam "foxhole atheist" who had lost his God while under enemy attack, had initially regarded the American Atheists' pre-disappearance monetary woes as an occasion for solidarity: "It was like being outnumbered and under fire again, but by golly we were there," he says. This outlook was shaken in March 1995, when, in the course of his work, he encountered what seemed to him to be a New Zealand account bearing nearly $900,000. Travis was "extremely insulted" to discover the extra cash at a time when the organization was crying poor. After the O'Hairs' vanishing...
...morning and attempted to rob it, taking up to 70 people inside hostage after the place was surrounded by police. After a tense afternoon of negotiations, the captors began releasing the hostages just before 3 p.m. There were no injuries reported from the incident, but one woman who appeared shaken was carried away on a stretcher. Police believe that the robbery attempt is connected to at least three other similar crimes at other Financial Exchange stores in the city. In each incident, store employees have been taken hostage in their homes the night before the store is to be robbed...
...unrelated to earlier ones, the national outcry was immediate. "The problem is, he's an official, and there are allegations of pedophilia. Those are the two most sensitive topics in Belgium right now," says political scientist Kris Deschouwer. Sensitive scarcely begins to describe it. The country is still shaken by the discovery last August of a child-kidnapping ring that preyed on young girls. A 12-year-old and a 14-year-old who had been abducted and raped were freed from a macabre underground dungeon in a home of the accused ringleader, Marc Dutroux, near the southern city...