Word: strays
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Perversely, though, a stray thought suggests it might matter to them--could they know about it--that their death had the prestige of a great disaster, like the Titanic, say, or even of Lockerbie. More stature in that--more fame, more myth--than in a commuter flight downed by wind shear in rural Iowa...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Three years ago, 15-year-old Louis Brown of Boston was killed by a stray bullet as he headed to a Christmas party sponsored by a local anti-gang group. On Monday, Louis's parents were at the White House to see President Clinton announce a Federal program that will document and trace weapons sold to youths. Under Clinton's plan, information on guns confiscated from juveniles in 17 cities will be entered into a federal computer database. Then, ATF agents and local police can trace the guns back to the original sellers using documents and serial numbers...
Stage 2: Denial. Or, anyway, incredulity, and stray questions...
...report also points up discrepancies in Israel's responses to the event, the most glaring of which is this: the shells' pattern is at odds with the argument that the "accident" was a result of "a couple of stray shells," as the Israelis originally claimed. As Van Kappen told TIME last week, "When I went there, I believed the Israeli army: a few shells had just overshot. I was there only 10 minutes when I knew I was in deep trouble. This was not a simple overshoot." Nevertheless, the Israelis, who have contradicted themselves several times in an effort...
...Lights, Big City, a well-observed comic novel that caught a generational updraft and became either The Catcher in the Rye of the '80s or the Trout Fishing in America of the '80s, depending on your estimation (I would come down somewhere in between). His subsequent books didn't stray far from the urban high life, but with his fifth novel McInerney aims to limber up and take on something more ambitious...