Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beyond the shock that seven- and eight-year-old boys might be capable of committing such a crime, there was much hand wringing over how justice should be dispensed. "These kids have no idea what's happening to them," says Cook County public guardian Patrick Murphy. "Kids this young have short attention spans. They would tell the police anything in hopes of getting out of there to go watch...
...police, converted the beloved estate into an equally well-regarded bordello. "Oh, the former owner would be terribly upset if she knew this was going on in that place," Smith said, strolling past the manicured, sloping lawns along Old Glen Road. "I'm sure she would have died of shock...
...face, what's the polite thing to do? Splash some on your own -- which may be Boris Yeltsin's thinking as he awaits President Clinton's September 1 visit. Russia's leader returned to his month-long vacation Tuesday, while his country reeled under the shock of Monday's ruble devaluation. "Should the latest package fail to stem the crisis, Russia's political establishment will be totally discredited," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "They have too often claimed to have found a way out of their economic woes, only to be proved wrong each time." Indeed, Yeltsin...
Indeed, Fieger might be Michigan's fastest-rising Democrat, but he sometimes sounds more like "shock jock" Howard Stern. From disarming candor ("Sure, I smoked marijuana. And I inhaled. I'm not a liar like Clinton") to mean-spirited jabs (his favorite: Engler is the "product of miscegenation between barnyard animals and humans"), Fieger has spent his career making waves and lambasting virtually anyone who disagrees with him. "He's too quick. He's too unscrupulous, and he's too feisty," sniffs University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar, an expert on assisted suicide who has endured more than...
...tears through the comforting screen of normality. One moment, midmorning shoppers and workers bustle along Nairobi's Haile Selassie Avenue at the downtown corner where a bronze eagle and a fluttering flag mark the five-story U.S. embassy. The next, the earth trembles as a thunderclap unleashes a mighty shock wave. Seconds later, black smoke plumes into the sky as the tarmac ignites, flashing fire to parked cars and passing buses. The blast shatters every window within a quarter-mile radius into lethal slivers, blows the bombproof doors off the embassy, sucks out ceilings and furniture and people, pancakes...