Word: slain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moving away of nearly all of my friends--is terrifying in and of itself. The real-world pressures that await me (particularly the job that I don't have yet) are nauseatingly worrisome. But these concerns are nothing compared to what the survivors and relatives of the slain in Littleton, Colo., are going through right now. For them I offer up all of the sorrow, sympathy and understanding my human heart can muster...
Given the killers' barbarism, it is remarkable that more trekkers were not slain. Elizabeth Garland, 29, an anthropology student at the University of Chicago, remembered to turn off her wristwatch alarm while she lay fear-stricken in her tent; the raiders never found her. Another American, Linda Adams, 53, walked a mile toward a certain death with the other captives, then feigned an asthma attack and was let go. Deanja Walther, 26, a Swiss flight attendant who speaks French, stayed with the English-speaking hostages even though the Hutus let the French-speaking tourists remain at the camp. Walther...
...slain American couple, Rob Haubner, 48, and Susan Miller, 42, were considering early retirement from Intel Corp. and a life of exotic travel when they left for Uganda. They had been in Africa before. "There was no fear," says Eric Pozzo, a friend and former co-worker. "Just nothing but unbridled excitement." Grimacing at the reports of the machete killings, Pozzo says, "These are deaths that you'd not wish on your worst enemy." But in central Africa today enmity is as deep as the forests...
Maybe I'm not poor enough to be an mc, since I never actually needed to sell crack, a la also slain Biggie Smalls. Or maybe I'm not imaginative enough to deliver "Ten Crack Commandments" despite my relatively comfortable upbringing...
...Daydreaming or dancing in the aisles, students and faculty continue to contemplate the nature of the beast. Brave as the souls dueling the monster classes may be, they have not slain it. The beast is simply...