Word: wounded
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Unlike that of the tightly wound anchorman hero of Network, Dan Rather's public weirdness (the mysterious assaults, his live-TV walkout) preceded the indignities imposed by the network bosses (his closest CBS colleagues purged, his story ideas slighted). But the scenario is still Chayefskian, and now there's a real-life Network II: in a goose-the-ratings gambit, the bosses oblige the battered, brave protagonist (Rather) to accept a hustling, not exactly cerebral woman (Connie Chung) as his co-anchor...
Frank, who is transferring from Dunster House to Eliot House next year, suffered a bloody gash in his right leg yesterday while moving boxes. He said he incurred the wound rushing to the Eliot storage center to beat the 3 p.m. closing time...
...Graf could become No. 1 again." The assailant, a 38-year-old German lathe operator, nearly succeeded. His 4.5-in. boning knife barely missed Seles' spinal cord, and it put a 1/2- in.-deep cut in the muscles of her upper back. Doctors at a nearby hospital closed the wound and predicted that it would heal quickly. Nevertheless, the wound put her out of the Hamburg tournament -- she was top seed and was leading Bulgarian Magdalena Maleeva 6-4, 4-3 when she was stabbed -- and trainers were uncertain if she would be fit to defend her title...
Usually, the first to complete the course lingered around the stake, waiting to attack the other finishing players, knocking off one or two. But in cases, the last to reach the stake wound up winning the game. Finishing first meant nothing. The rules meant little...
...panelists showed slides of dead East Timorese women and children, including one particularly graphic photo of an infant who had been killed by a gunshot wound to the head...