Word: ward
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...murder case. He quizzed lawyers at lunch and took files back to his hotel at night. At one conference a question arose -- about the relative heights of shooter and victim -- that stumped the real lawyers. "Harrison was the only one who knew the answer," recalls chief assistant prosecutor George Ward, "because he had studied the pictures of the two persons. He really did his homework...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Gyavira Lasana, Melinda J. McAdams, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
...Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Barbara Dudley Davis, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Gyavira Lasana, Melinda J. McAdams, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss...
...other side of the globe, in a military ward of a hospital in the Cambodian town of Kampong Spoe, 25 miles southwest of Phnom Penh, a soldier named Neh Kon, 30, lies on a wooden pallet. He has lost both legs -- one just above the knee, the other just below. The stumps are wrapped in flyspecked, blood-soaked bandages. Neh Kon's wife sits beside him, holding their young child. Two weeks earlier, on patrol in Khmer Rouge territory, Neh Kon stepped on a mine. "By the time we get peace," he says, "a lot of people won't have...
...another ward of the same hospital lies a civilian woodcutter named Top Sakhan, 44. He is the father of a boy, 10, and a girl, 7. A week before, Khmer Rouge guerrillas jumped him in a nearby forest. For no particular reason, they shot him in both legs with an AK-47 and left him lying there. "I called after them, 'Why don't you just kill me?' " Top Sakhan says. "But they didn't answer." Doctors saved his right leg and amputated the left. "His life is finished," whispers the hospital administrator...