Word: slain
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...world-class playwright wrought for a moody Scandinavian scion: "Living or not living: that is what I ask." Or an alcoholic bard's notoriously rhythmical night thoughts: "'Twas upon a midnight tristful I sat poring, wan and wistful/ Through many a quaint and curious list full of my consorts slain." A mournful coda follows: "Quoth that Black Bird, 'Not again...
...retarded and was institutionalized in 1941. Joe Jr. was killed in World War II. In 1948 daughter Kathleen died in a plane crash in southern France. Then the world mourned with Rose when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 and again when his brother Robert was slain in 1968. Her husband died the following year. ``God does not send us a cross heavier than we can bear,'' she once said. ``How you cope is the important thing.'' DIED. BAMBI, 31, female red deer, since 1989 the oldest of her species known to man, according to the Guinness Book...
...Martin Luther King historic site -- a 23-acre parcel that encompasses the birth home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church, King's tomb and the family-run King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. But in a broader sense, it was symbolic of the troubles that have beset the legacy of the slain civil rights leader in his hometown even as the U.S. prepares to celebrate his birthday next week...
...daughter of slain black leader Malcolm X was indicted in Minneapolis today in an alleged plot to kill her father's old rival, Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan. Qubilah Shabazz, 34, who was four years old when she saw her father gunned down nearly 30 years ago, was charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill Farrakhan, whom her family has long suspected of having played a role in Malcolm's death. Shabazz, who was released on a $10,000 bond, turned herself in after a seven-month FBI investigation. If convicted, she could be sentenced...
...China's Yangtze River hurtles through a series of sheer chasms known as the Three Gorges. Legend has it that the scenic channel was carved in stone by the goddess Yao Ji as a way of diverting the river around the petrified remains of a dozen dragons she had slain for harassing the peasants. Over the centuries painters and poets have idealized the canyons as a mist-shrouded wilderness. While that may have once been true, the region lost much of its majesty in modern times, as demolition teams blasted rocky obstructions from the river's course, and the bucolic...