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...delivered a rousing speech to 1,800 supporters in the ballroom. He then exited through the hotel's pantry, where at 12:16 a.m., a slight, dark-haired Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan pulled out a .22 cal. revolver, fired eight shots and fatally wounded the candidate. For a stricken America, it revived memories of the killings of Kennedy's brother John and of Martin Luther King Jr. and shattered the dreams of those yearning for a return to Camelot. --By Daren Fonda
...call. The police have found her father knocking on strangers' doors at 3 in the morning. A quiet, spiritual man, he had been a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, but within months he was barely keeping it together in a nursing home. Miller notes his cerebral short circuits with stricken fascination. He began to mistake his shadow for "a strange black animal dogging him," and he could find only the food on the right side of his plate. Miller, the author of several best-selling novels, including The Good Mother and While I Was Gone, manages to spot the rare...
...believed to be the first link in the chain leading to most of the territory's 200-plus infections. With so many cases concentrated in Hong Kong, travel agents are reporting a slew of cancellations by tourists who had been planning to travel to the territory. Other stricken nations are also running scared: many students in Vietnam are staying home from school because parents are fearful of exposing them to the disease...
...going to two of my five classes this week because my professors have chosen to keep my classes in buildings that are being stricken,” Rosenberg said. “Even if there aren’t picket lines, I feel committed to not entering spaces that are being struck...
Wearing a traditional Bolivian hat, she told the audience through an interpreter of her childhood in Chapare, a poverty-stricken region she said is largely populated by coca farmers...