Word: sterne
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...takes a special kind of courage to think about the unthinkable, and Jessica Stern has it. A lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, Stern studies those who kill innocents for political gain. While others debate theories of terrorism from the safety of the ivory tower, Stern travels the world to meet those who actually commit the acts...
...what's really going on under DON IMUS' cowboy hat when he's glowering off into the distance? Last week smart money would say it had something to do with HOWARD STERN. The longer-haired of the two radio shock jocks took aim at Imus' charity ranch in New Mexico, where the famously cantankerous broadcaster puts up kids with cancer and gives them chores (example: gardening) intended to heighten appreciation for old-fashioned, outdoorsy values. On his show, Stern termed the ranch a "scam." "These cancer kids show up, and Imus just lets them work on the ranch for free...
...running firefight." By now it was dark, and the journalists could see tracers streaming through the air in their direction. "There was lots of incoming, the driver was going straight down a steep hill, looking for a hole [cover]. The German [Volker Handloik, a photographer for the German magazine Stern] fell and rolled, there were people falling off the APC at the back. I did not see much as I was on the front, holding on to a cannon...
...Trade Center?? (Well, two months ago, it was right down there.) There was brisk and heavy foot traffic, mostly parents and their kids visiting Manhattan?s own theme park of death and remembrance. A mother and daughter walked north wearing particle masks. Two women passing them shot them a stern look, as if to say, ?This ain?t no stinkin? biohazard zone,? and the mother turned to argue, then kept walking away. Another family - mother, father, son - passed the masked duo, and the boy asked if it was safe down here. ?It?s safe for being here,? mom said...
...death row. Despite his professed contrition and pleas from human-rights groups, Mitchell became the 10th person executed in Texas for a murder committed as a minor. DIED. BERTIE MEE, 82, former championship-winning manager of one of England's best-known football clubs, Arsenal; in London. A stern disciplinarian who left most of the football tactics to his coaches, Mee managed the team from 1966 to 1976. In his crowning moment, Mee led Arsenal in 1971 to championships in both the League and the FA Cup, only the second time a double win had been clinched in the 20th...