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...possibility that the Oklahoma City DA succeeds in getting Nichols to stand trial a second time, for the murder of all 168 victims, not just the eight federal agents around which the Denver trial hinged. But there's doubt that any number of convictions will satisfy a city still torn apart by the most murderous act in American history...
...tough sell, there were some major rewards for the President and his policy ? such as the face of Sarajevo itself, bristling with new cafes and businesses just two years after it was torn apart by a siege. "These are good people and this is a good thing we're doing," Clinton said he was told by one of the troops in a Virginia unit he encountered. Making the folks back home see it the same way is a battle the White House will have to fight another...
...cleaner. Last year, Rawlins was bashed by people...she was torn apart. I haven't seen that this year," said Suzanne M. Miller...
...Orleans, fondly described by Benfey, did indeed attract Degas. A seething maelstrom beneath its exquisite veneer of refinement, the city threatened to be torn apart by racial conflict during Degas' stay. Some of his prominent relatives belonged to a league designed to facilitate business ties between whites and free men of color; others belonged to a white supremacist league. (As this book reveals for the first time, Degas had some relatives among those free men of color.) Not just the Musson family but all of New Orleans was similarly split. Lingering bitterness against Reconstruction was easily detectable...
...incessant rhythm, a constant call and response that made reflection a selfish luxury. "I'm all right," the main character tells his wife during a rare phone call from Sarajevo. Having said much the same in similarly inadequate calls, I know that he wasn't really. He was torn, as we all were, between being part of the agony around us and privileged outsiders...