Word: tore
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...guardians of Kosovo?s refugees, NATO are a bunch of deadbeats, according to the U.N. An official in charge of coordinating refugee relief efforts tore into the Western alliance Friday, hoping to shame it into handing over desperately needed cash to resettle the half million returned refugees. "The international community spent billions of dollars on a military campaign that was intended to pave the way for the return of refugees," said Soren Jessen-Petersen, the U.N. assistant high commissioner for refugees. "It is a pity they are not prepared to spend what we have asked for, to see the refugees...
MOSCOW: Yevgeny Primakov hadn't done much to get the Russian economy on its feet again, but at least he had stopped the bleeding. So when Boris Yeltsin tore the Band-Aid off Wednesday, the rest of Europe recoiled. The euro dipped to near its all-time low, and indexes in Britain, France and Germany fell on the news that yet another Russian government had left and gone away...
...devil's music, or that Roman Catholicism, in which she was recently ordained by a rebel sect, does not allow women in the clergy. Come to think of it, O'Connor doesn't seem to get this whole religion thing at all. Last week the woman who in 1992 tore up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live became the first female priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, a Roman Catholic splinter group. Days before the ordination in Lourdes, France, O'Connor, a twice-married mother of two, told the London newspaper the Mirror that she would like...
Revenge dramas are as old as Medea (she tore her sons to pieces), as hallowed as Hamlet (seven murders), as familiar as The Godfather. High drama is about the conflict between shades of good and evil, often within the same person. But it's easier to dream up a scenario of slavering evil and imperishable good. This is the moral and commercial equation of melodrama: the greater the outrage suffered, the greater the justification for revenge. You grind me down at first; I grind you up at last. This time it's personal...
After the football team clinched the Ivy League title this year, Penn students stormed the football field, tore down one of the goalposts, marched to the Schuykill River and threw it in. And students loyally followed the basketball team to Princeton to see them capture the Ivy title and then tore down the Tigers' own nets. Some students even flew to Seattle to see the team play in the NCAA tournament...