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That's what La Rochefoucauld said about the old Letterman show when the generic air crash joke Dave told at the 5:30 p.m. taping turned sour by the 12:30 a.m. broadcast, due to an actual air disaster around 9 p.m.: "But if it was now wrong to mock the charred remains of the dead, surely it was wrong a week ago, and would still be wrong a week hence when Dave resumed airline ridicule.
The Second and Third Crusades, however, were a disaster for the Christians.
Arriving as it does on the tail end of the Paula Jones disaster, Frances K. Conley's memoir of sexism at Stanford may encounter a kind of sexual-conflict fatigue and miss the attention it deserves.
"Once the bombing commenced, I think then [Slobodan] Milosevic unleashed his forces, and then that's when the slaughtering and the massive ethnic cleansing really started," Nickles said at a news conference after appearing on Meet the Press . "The administration's campaign has been a disaster.
It was totally covered by several feet of ash during the eruption around 1500 b.c., but unlike the tragic city of Pompeii in Italy, no human remains have been found, leading scientists to believe that the population escaped before the disaster took place.