The phrase evil empire was first applied to the Soviet Union in 1983 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities, in calling for a rollback strategy that would, in his words, write the final pages of the history of the ...
Colonel Eric G. Kail, U.S. Army, died peacefully Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at his home in Austin with his dear friends and family at his side.He is survived by his wife, Gigi Kail, his children, Jake and Emma, his mother, Brenda Kail of Williamsburg, Virginia, and his brother, Scott Kail of Piedmont, California.r. Kail was a recently named Chief Behavioral Scientist at APTUS Discovery in Austin. He was also the founder and president of Cardinal Leadership, Incorporated. Colonel Kail was an avid hunter and fisherman, and he could often be found outside by the grill in the evenings.
Reeve had become an advocate for spinal cord injury research. Superman star Christopher Reeve, who lobbied for medical research after being paralysed in a fall nine years ago, has died aged 52. He had been suffering from an infection as a result of a pressure wound and died on Sunday, his publicist said. He suffered a cardiac arrest at his New York home and slipped into a coma, Wesley Combs added. Reeve was paralysed in 1995 when he broke his neck after being thrown from a horse. He later became an advocate for spinal cord injury research. In recent years, he had regained sensation in some parts of his body.