47 Years Apart, but Joined in Upheaval
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Joe Torreâs refusal to accept a contract offer from the Yankees came 47 years to the day after the team dismissed Casey Stengel, who also spent 12 seasons as the teamâs manager.
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Â· Campaign speech paves way to insure 47m peopleÂ· Candidate haunted by failure of 1993 reform
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Is this where you came in a long time ago? Say, 1991?
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They stood together, his hand on her shoulder, stunned disbelief on their faces as they peered down into a vast hole below. It was where their lives had first intersected, 26 years ago on the 44th floor.
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It has been a long and winding road paved with 30 years of disharmony.
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Politics, however, still interferes in recollections of that horrible period even 60 years afterwards.
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More than a decade and a half after the  collapse of the Berlin Wall, a new east-west divide has opened  up in the city which was for 40 years the front-line of the  Cold War.
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Violence in Iraq and instability in Lebanon are driving hundreds of thousands of people abroad in an upheaval not matched in the Middle East since the exodus of Palestinian refugees when Israel was created in 1948.
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The steady exodus in recent years has become a hot topic in a land already saddled with one of the most rapidly aging and shrinking populations of any Western nation.
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Eleven years after the war ended, local political leaders are inflaming ethnic tensions and risking further instability -- or even possibly violence
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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Lessons from two world-traveling retirees.
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A brother and sister who were separated in 1975 during the Mexican government's crackdown on leftist activists have been reunited after 30 years, authorities announced Tuesday.
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Everyone has a moment in time that divides  his or her life into "before" and "after." For me that moment was 10 years ago, when I was 34. I had just left New York and moved to Washington -- trading my soul-deadening career and  size-0 studio apartment for a 9-to-5 job and a big one-bedroom overl...
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The differences are huge, and "Wife Swap" makes the most of them.
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On a warm, dry evening 50 years ago, thousands of people packed the old polo ground in Accra, capital of the soon-to-be-independent country of Ghana. Ernest Tetteh was in his final year of high school and recalled that the atmosphere turned electric as midnight neared.
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Forty years later, defeats and disappointments continue to shape the lives of Palestinians and Israelis