Word: slain
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...three Academy Awards, winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the 1989 Civil War epic Glory. More important than achieving these milestones, however, has been to playing a variety of challenging and not race-specific roles. For every Malcolm X, in which he starred as the slain Muslim leader, there was a Philadelphia, in which he played a homophobic lawyer who just happened to be black. He has shown a facility for Shakespearean comedy (Much Ado About Nothing), as well as for Spike Lee drama (Mo' Better Blues). In just the past four months Washington...
...Fans of slain pop singer Selena paid their respects by making Dreaming of You, the Tejano queen's unfinished crossover effort, the first album by a Latin artist to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart. The disc sold 331,000 copies for the week, becoming history's second fastest-selling release by a female artist...
...Rademaekers. "The French have many enemies," he explains. Algerian militants, Bosnian Serbs and extremist antinuclear groups -- all have motives. The Algerian Armed Islamic Group (AIG) has a longstanding threat of retaliation after the French stormed an airplane hijacked by four of its members in December, 1994. All four were slain in the raid. Then again, Bosnian Serbs could be sending the French a stern warning after a reported bombing attack this weekend on Pale, in which a close relative of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was supposedly targeted and killed. Finally, antinuclear groups have been angry because of President Jacques...
...results of DNA blood tests. Forensic scientist Robin Cotton testified that a blood drop found at the crime scene matched Simpson's -- with a 1-in-170 million chance it could have been someone else's-and that blood found on a sock at Simpson's estate matched his slain ex-wife's, with an even smaller margin of error. On cross-examination, the defense repeated its dual themes that the blood sent to Cotton's lab may have been contaminated or planted to frame Simpson...
...Venom jockey Howard Stern apologizing for ridiculing Hispanic music in general and slain Tejano music diva Selena in particular...