Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under a hot sun broken by violent summer showers, Kosovo is waking to a midsummer's nightmare. The sickly sweet smell of decaying flesh hangs in invisible clouds across the province, and the ground offers up body parts. Bits of ashen bone--a thigh, a rib cage--and chunks of roasted flesh litter the floors of burned-out houses. Corpses, left where they fell, putrefy in fields and farmyards amid the buzzing of flies and the howling of stray dogs. As the first of Kosovo's Albanian refugees stream back across the borders or down from hiding in the hills...
...citizen at 24, is on his way to the murder scene. Manny Davila lives in two worlds, one the color of his uniform and the other the color of his skin, and he knows those worlds have collided on this horrible day. A day in which a brilliant, falling sun glints across the sprawling desert city, catching the top of the utility pole that Atkinson plowed into and casting the shadow of a perfect cross onto the side of a building across the street...
...tried, in his quiet way, to live beyond the stereotypes that divide police and community, white and Hispanic. And now there were people out there stirring it up, the vultures and hacks, politicizing Atkinson's death before he was in the ground. At the spot where the afternoon sun still draws a cross on the wall, Davila's spirit breaks again. "You had people calling the radio talk shows to take their shots. It started with illegal aliens, and then it was, 'Let's send all the Mexicans back.'" Some of his officers were jumpy too--ready to crack down...
...Hill, 31, are it. They are the Tom and Nicole of today's country music (fully clothed, of course). Hill's sunny third CD, Faith (Warner Bros.), has gone double platinum and spawned the hit single This Kiss. McGraw's new album, the amiable A Place in the Sun, debuted at No. 1 on the pop chart, and is still going strong. On July 1, in Reno, Nev., McGraw will launch a new solo tour...
...house whose rooms have not yet taken in their owners. A young house. The hedges in the front look like weeds. I never realized before how much I loved the wealth of trees around my house. Here, the trees are saplings, providing no shade from an unblinking sun...