Word: schweitzer
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Physician and philosopher Albert Schweitzer was the conscience of our age. He worked as a humble doctor treating thousands in equatorial Africa for 35 years. He was the Mother Teresa of the first half of this century. BETTY JANE BROWN Rio Rancho...
SENTENCED. LEROY SCHWEITZER, 61, leader of the Freemen, the anti-government, anti-black and anti-Jewish group best known for its 81-day standoff with law-enforcement officials in 1996; to 22 1/2 years in prison; on charges including bank fraud and illegal possession of firearms; in Billings, Mont. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, who said he wanted to send a "loud and clear message to those who pass this hatred...around," also handed stiff sentences to six of Schweitzer's comrades...
...Albert Schweitzer, a missionary, opens a hospital in Lambarene, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), for the treatment of leprosy and sleeping sickness
...evenly shared. All that was apparently sufficient for at least three of the eight Marine jurors to vote not guilty (military juries require only two-thirds to convict) after seven hours of deliberation. Ashby still faces charges of destroying a videotape of the flight, and his navigator, Captain Joseph Schweitzer, faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter and obstruction of justice...
Schlesinger, the third medal winner taught at Harvard for many years before leaving for City University of New York, where he is now Albert Schweitzer professor emeritus of the humanities. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he is currently working on his memoirs...