Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...themes appeal quickly to our current sensibilities and terms. As Fagles explained, beyond being an intriguing anti-hero and simultaneously a good husband, Odysseus demonstrates along with his kin a push-and-pull between family values and "being irritated at each other." And on a more somber front, Odysseus' station in life reflects the read-justments inherent to a post-war epic and the idea that wars can be both fought and eventually ended...
Marv Dyson, president of WGCI, a popular black-oriented radio station in the city, first read about Girl X in a local black newspaper. "She had been forgotten by the mass media," Dyson says. "It's not a big story. This kind of thing goes on in housing projects all over the country." Only as some local community and church leaders got involved and Louis Farrakhan came to pray at her bedside did Girl X's plight come to the attention of the mainstream Chicago press. "The Cabrini-Green rape would be widely known had the victim been white," wrote...
...Station WGCI parked a mobile studio outside Children's Memorial Hospital, where Girl X remains, and Dyson launched a 16-hour, on-air fund-raising drive that along with other efforts has yielded a staggering $200,000. The proceeds will go toward the child's medical expenses. Girl X, meanwhile, is conscious but unable to speak. So far, police say, they have no suspects...
...says Bob LoMonaco, senior vice president of sales for Todd McFarlane, which makes the Kiss dolls. "This is the first celebrity doll we've made, but there has been a lot of interest." Each Kiss member will retail for about $7.99. Hasbro's General Eisenhower, as befits his station, will be a little pricier, at $49.99. And if you prefer your dolls-in-uniform to come equipped with a riding crop, Hasbro also makes a General Patton...
...Last Wednesday, the NBC station in Los Angeles led its broadcast with a report, unconfirmed at the time, that Michael Jackson's wife had given birth...