Word: taylorism
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...allowing the trial to resume. Steps Toward Justice SIERRA LEONE The U.N.-backed trial of 13 suspects indicted for war crimes committed during the 1991-2002 civil war opened in the capital, Freetown. Progovernment militia leaders were first to stand accused of atrocities, with rebels - including alleged backer Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia who is currently in exile in Nigeria - scheduled to follow. The opening marks the first time an international war-crimes tribunal has convened in the country where the war took place. Some 50,000 people died during Sierra Leone's conflict. City Under Siege PAKISTAN...
...company saw 96% die within the first 15 minutes. Of the first 32 Sherman tanks that landed, supposedly equipped with devices to help them make it to shore, 27 sank in the churning seas, drowning their crews. "Two kinds of men are staying on this beach," shouted Colonel George Taylor to the men of his regiment on Omaha Beach. "The dead and those who are going to die. Get up! Move in! Goddammit! Move...
DIED. JUNE TAYLOR, 86, Emmy Award--winning choreographer whose high-kicking, wide-smiling routines on The Jackie Gleason Show introduced the Broadway-inspired chorus line to television audiences in the 1950s and '60s; in Miami. When a bout of tuberculosis at age 20 derailed her career as a Chicago nightclub dancer, she founded her own touring company, the June Taylor Dancers, and in 1946 ran into Gleason at a Baltimore nightclub...
...appreciation for my service, I was instead treated with a bit of scorn for having served. I sincerely hope those who do not have the privilege of serving their country in the military will see fit to honor those who make that choice, such as my son, William Taylor ’04, and his six classmates who will receive their commissions as officers through the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) upon graduation from Harvard College next month...
MICHAEL W. TAYLOR...