Word: troy
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Capital Of Despair Hours after the funeral service of a teenage suicide took place in his Belfast church, Father Aidan Troy found himself giving last rites to another boy who hanged himself in the bell tower. The twin suicides are part of a mounting trend: Belfast has gone from being a city with a global reputation for murder to one of the U.K. 's suicide black spots, with as many as a dozen suicides reported there last year. Despite the benefits of Northern Ireland's 1998 Good Friday accord, the effects of 30 years of conflict are aggravating ordinary social...
...potentially damaging testimony by an Eagle County, Colo., undercover investigator. "Detective A," testifying from behind a black curtain, described the scene when detectives made their first contact with Bryant at his hotel after a Colorado teenager accused him of sexual assault last summer. The detective said Bryant's bodyguard--Troy Laster, an off-duty Los Angeles police officer--commented, "If this is what I think it is, I don't want to be involved." Bryant's attorney was quick to label the detective's allegation "a complete lie." But some courtroom observers thought it could give the prosecution ammunition...
...typical of self-portraits. El Greco often put his adopted city, Toledo, in the background of his works. A blurred view of its fortified walls can be seen at the foot of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception (1608-1613), and he used it as a stand-in for Troy in Laocoön (early 1610s). (Laocoön and his sons were destroyed by snakes for suggesting that the wooden horse was not as innocent as it seemed...
...another humorous moment, wide receiver Troy Brown faced the crowd trophy in-hand, removed his dark sunglasses to reveal a black eye and broken nose sustained in Sunday’s game, and yelled “Bingo...
...Crimson (7-8-2, 5-6-1 ECAC) could not put together any sort of streak, falling the next night to Rensselaer in Troy...