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Looking for Lockerbie; THE BIG READ: AMERICANS CAPTURE SPIRIT OF SCOTS COMMUNITY Poignant pictures pay tribute to thriving town.(News)
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Byline: By Annie Brown
ON December 21, 1988, the town of Lockerbie was stamped on the world map as the home of the greatest mass murder the UK has ever seen.
With the explosion of Pan Am flight 103, the ordinary character of the town vanished and it became known as a place of great tragedy.
But a new book, Looking For Lockerbie, gives a fresh perspective on a community reluctant to be defined by disaster. It was the idea of Professor Lawrence Mason Jnr, of Syracuse University, which lost 35 of its students on the flight. Lawrence knew eight of them, ...
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General Petraeus boom War Gives B rie A fing
Newspaper article from: Idaho State Journal
; ...recommendations on how to prosecute the war in Afghanistan, I spoke with...His subsequent rise from one star to four was extraordinarily swift...ACKNOWLEDGES THAT after eight years of war against a determined and elusive...Congress, question whether the war in Afghanistan remains worth...
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ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY ROTC INSTRUCTOR TO RECEIVE BRONZE STAR
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...University, will be awarded the Bronze Star medal at a special ceremony on Thursday...Special Operations Command, enabling the war fighter with real-time video dissemination...personnel across the globe." The Bronze Star is awarded for heroic or meritorious achievement...
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War has a relentless and indelible pattern.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...the Grand Alliance. The Russo-Turkish War. The Ottoman Wars. The Danish-Swedish War (1643-1645...Polish-Cossack War. The Polish-Swedish War. The Wars of the Fronde, or French Civil Wars...War of Austrian Succession. The Punic Wars. "It (war) is all hell ...
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War time past is legacy for future
Newspaper article from: Lincolnwood Review (IL)
; ...It should have been the war to end all wars." Sparks' husband...senseless." "I hate wars," he said. "Why can...while the effects of the war could still be seen in...Award-winning movie star Dan Dailey. Potoczek...library. Veterans of World War II and other wars are encouraged ...
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War on the musical front
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...gave birth to the name War. Although War seems to be a moniker with violent...being "our weapons of choice." War will roll out its musical arsenal...Together, said his band has opened for War at the Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville and...
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WAR THROUGH HOLLYWOOD'S EYE.(PREVIEW)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...STRICKLER Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune War and politics go hand in hand...Ri'' (1954) showed Korean War pilots who were not entirely...Between the Korean and Vietnam wars, romance returned to war pictures. Many were action...
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War Emblem favored in Haskell Invitational.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...racing season did not end when War Emblem, with a record Belmont...opened. It just seemed that way. War Emblem might very well have been...month before the Kentucky Derby, War Emblem was not even a speck on...the North Jersey shore. The star of the show, after several false...
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War's toll is huge in tiny Vermont; A state known for activism finds itself leading in Iraq combat deaths per capita.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...signs, one urging prayer for war hostages (and their captors...Halvorsen says she never favored the war, but since her son's death...frantic when talk turns to the war. "Something didn't feel right...outspoken Cindy Sheehan's Gold Star Families for Peace anti-war...
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War!
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report
; WAR OF 1812 Why: Britain, then at war with France, was seizing U.S. merchant...attacks on pioneers. Congress declared war on June 18, 1812. Number of soldiers...song: Francis Scott Key penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" after he witnessed...
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War flicks struggle to make audiences enlist.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...Byline: James Verniere Is war a box-office turnoff...and a huge box-office star. Steeped in the tradition...2001) turns the "good" war into a soap opera and...And the recent World War II action flick "The...Jake Gyllenhaal, left, stars in `Jarhead,' and R...
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