Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consolation to the families of the 18 dead, the thousands of people left homeless and the hundreds of thousands whose vacations and property were disrupted--if not ruined--by Hurricane Opal, which roared out of the Gulf of Mexico and ripped through the Southern U.S. last week. The storm grew with surprising speed from a mild tropical depression to the most powerful hurricane of the season that was one of the worst stretches of hurricane formation on record. If Opal had struck a few hours earlier, or hit New Orleans, or Mobile, Alabama, or another big coastal city, it could...
...first story, "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," for which she won $100 in a contest, begins briskly: "To and fro, like a wild creature in its cage, paced that handsome woman, with bent head, locked hands, and restless steps. Some mental storm, swift and sudden as a tempest of the tropics, had swept over her and left its marks behind...
That gave Cochran the opening to put at the center of his case Mark Fuhrman, the Los Angeles police detective who played a critical role in collecting evidence at the crime scenes--and whose mind, judging from the taped monologues he made for a would-be screenwriter, is a storm of racial fury. But Cochran set off his own kind of racial tempest when he used his closing arguments to call Fuhrman and another Los Angeles officer, Philip Vannatter, "twin devils" and to compare Fuhrman to Adolf Hitler. More than that, he urged the jurors to see a not-guilty...
...nation's leaders for longer than I care to remember. What's happened to our America? Nothing would please me more than to see General Powell elected President. What he could do for this country's self-esteem would be marvelous. I was recalled to active duty for Desert Storm and served eight months overseas. I never questioned Powell's leadership or decision making then, and I don't now. Those of us who have been in the service realize that even when the uniform has been put away, the service doesn't stop. BRADLEY J. LOWRAN Berkley, Michigan...
...Simpson] was guilty enough for 10 men," Fakhas said. "There was no reasonable doubt. The only reasonable doubt was an army of expensive lawyers who could talk up a storm." --This report was compiled with Associated Press wire dispatches. Todd F. Braunstein and Justin Danilewitz also contributed to this report.Photo courtesy Associated PressFrankfurter Professor of Law ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, a member of O.J. Simpson's defense team, touches a television screen in his office at Harvard Law School immediately after his client was acquitted of dual murder. Dershowitz would have worked on Simpson's appeal if the jury had convicted...