Word: woundedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The experiences of an angelic presence seem to occur most often in moments of heightened awareness -- when everyday life has already been disrupted by some pressing fear or obstacle. Though often cast as rescuers, angels also seem to intervene to remove not the danger but the fear of it. Among...
Clinton was motivated to address the problem of handgun violence in part because of a gruesome incident on New Yorks Long Island Rail Road in which an evidently deranged man wielding a 9-mm pistol killed five commuters and wounded 18 others. The assailant, Colin Ferguson of Brooklyn, is black...
The slaughter produced a national shudder, the kind that follows any awful crime that bleeds into unexpected corners -- the toddler caught in cross fire during a trip to the Denver zoo, eight people gunned down in a swanky San Francisco law firm, and now five dead and 18 wounded by...
The crusade extends well beyond Washington, embracing local politicians and pundits and moral authorities across the country. Much of the attention is directed at kids, because gun violence among school-age children is skyrocketing, and because it is easier to form a consensus about the problem. The rate of gunshot...
Israeli soldiers wounded 37 Palestinian protesters who were rioting in the Gaza Strip over the killing by Israelis of a leader of the militant Muslim group Hamas. The unrest was the most serious since the signing of the peace accord in Washington in September. On Friday Israeli soldiers killed another...