Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NAME: "Sir" Charles Barkley OCCUPATION: Trash-talking hoopster BEST PUNCH: Said he was "disappointed greatly" that teammate Pippen wants to leave Houston after one season, particularly since "the Rockets went out of their way to get Scottie...
...Brooklyn Museum, right outside the entrance to "Sensation," is a small oil by Thomas Cole, the great 19th century painter who went to America from England as a young man and laid down on canvas the raw grandeur of the landscape as illustration of the new nation's moral power. The picture is easy to miss, a little study of a Christian pilgrim on the verdant knoll of a mountaintop. His arms are outspread, brilliant under a sky ablaze with light and hope...
Punch Sulzberger was, however, a veteran of the Marine Corps and refused to accept partial control. His parents relented, and he went on to preside over three decades of corporate expansion and journalistic excellence. It was Punch Sulzberger who had the courage to publish the Pentagon papers. It was Punch who painfully forced family members and aging editors into early retirement...
CHRIS ZIMMERMAN of Plough Publishing House and MISTY BERNALL went ahead with the book even though the Jefferson County sheriff's office and the mother of another victim advised them that DYLAN KLEBOLD or ERIC HARRIS may not have asked Cassie if she believed in God just before she was fatally shot last April 20. The question may have been put instead to VALEEN SCHNURR, 18, who lay wounded under another table. She replied yes, she says. As the gunman reloaded, he asked, "Why?" "Because I do believe, and my mom and dad taught me to." The gunman then walked...
Schnurr's mother says that last June she asked Zimmerman to hold the book until more facts were known. He demurred: "The Bernalls and I were aware of the discrepancies, and we went back and talked to witnesses again and resolved those." The Bernalls intend to distribute some book profits to local church youth groups and a scholarship fund...