Word: wretchedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But Foster had not been hospitalized for depression, as Forrestal had, nor was he the focus of criminal proceedings, as McFarlane was. Foster's death illuminates how Washington rituals have become wretched soap operas played out on a media stage where people, with all their frailties, are mercilessly dissected more...
Freedom -- of sorts. Freedom from beatings by a drunken father. Freedom from fighting with seven siblings for a crust of bread. Freedom to hope. Cristiano, now 16, fled the abuse and violence of his home at 6. Surely the streets of glamorous, wealthy Rio de Janeiro offered a better life...
No, not maps, even though Bosnia's Muslim, Croat and Serb leaders are set to talk once again this week of drawing up separate zones. The main question, and one that will torment the West for years to come, is the question of people, perhaps even the question of genocide...
BOSNIA: Wretched Sarajevo
Once the nation might have empathized with the Chinese immigrants pulled out of the waters off New York City last week. Like generations of previous newcomers, they believed the streets of the U.S. were paved with gold, and so they voluntarily crammed into the filthy hold of a ship for...