Word: slain
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...leading source of injury for women between the ages of 15 and 44. Each year 4 million women are severely assaulted by their current or former partner. Many of the victims fail to make it to the hospital in time: more than half of female murder victims are slain by their husband or boyfriend. "For too long, wife battering has been thought of as a private matter," says Sally Goldfarb of the National Organization for Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund. "In fact, it's a public health problem of epidemic proportions...
...ancients used to say, the war is not over as long as the last slain soldier remains unburied." With these words Russian President Boris Yeltsin made an effort last week to help mend the scars of the cold war. In a letter to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, Yeltsin confirmed that in the 1950s the Soviet Union shot down nine U.S. aircraft -- incidents never made public by the Pentagon -- and held 12 surviving Americans in prison or psychiatric clinics. He also reported that the Soviets held 716 American servicemen for varying periods during World War II and interrogated...
...March, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson spoke at the school, and drew national attention to student calls for more faculty diversity. And in April, even the usually tranquil Harvard Law Reivew added to the controversy by publishing a parody of an article by a slain feminist scholar on the an niversary of her death...
...Harvard Law School Administrative Board announced last week that it will not take disciplinary action against the authors of a Harvard Law Review spoof that parodied an essay by slain feminist law scholar Mary Joe Frug...
Then there is the matter of Coleman's clothes. Prosecutors have never doubted that the bag of clothing Coleman surrendered to the police the day after the murder contained the same items he wore the night Wanda was slain. Indeed, during the trial the prosecutors made much of three droplets of blood that matched Wanda's type O blood on the left leg of the blue jeans...