Word: withing
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The account by London-based Amnesty International is crucial because it has dramatically affected the world's most important audience. Days after reading the 82-page report at Camp David, George Bush was still talking about it. "I ask you to read half of it," said the President during an...
Far more than the number of atrocities, the manner of Iraq's barbarism has stuck with Bush. Amnesty documents 38 methods of torture used by the Iraqis -- everything from the use of electric probes to the cutting off of ears and tongues. "Good God," says Bush, "it is so powerful...
Senior writer George J. Church's second greatest talent is penning musical parodies. Colleagues celebrating milestones in their lives are frequently blessed with a Church ditty, sung by the renowned librettist himself to one of a long list of pop tunes (e.g., I Left My Heart in San Francisco). His...
Another of George's gifts is his ability to overcome adversity. Last winter, the award-winning writer entered a hospital for a kidney transplant only days - after knocking out a cover on Pentagon cutbacks. Within three months, Church was back in action, dazzling everyone with his wordplay -- and his horseplay...
Bespectacled and goateed, Lothar de Maiziere always looked less like a politician than a classical musician. In fact, before he became East Germany's first -- and last -- freely elected head of government in April 1990, De Maiziere was once a professional violist. After a nerve ailment ended his orchestral career...