Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mentors often said, "You can't unring a bell." He was right. This bell has been rung--with mortifying effect. Well, I wish to say for the record--and for what it may be worth--I have not lied to, defrauded, or mislead anyone, or otherwise committed the slightest breach of law or ethics with respect to this situation. Had The Crimson shown more courtesy, factual discipline, and professional restraint, the truth might have had a better chance to emerge. As it is, I will simply have to hope that when the entire story can be appropriately told, The Crimson...
Parallels to The Bell Curve...
...BEGINS WITH A ship's bell clanging peacefully in the night. Suddenly there is the shuddering impact of steel meeting solid, razor-sharp ice. Then the music emerges as if from a watery grave, half heard and half perceived, a stately, contemplative hymn solemnly intoned by a string sextet. A brass choir picks up fragments of the tune, while a boys' chorus adds a heavenly descant of Kyrie Eleison. From time to time, scraps of sound emerge from the wreckage-buckling bulkheads, rushing water, disembodied voices of the survivors, alarm horns honking futilely across the cold North Atlantic...
...phone number and address and dared them to turn him in. (As good Singaporeans, they did. Leeson was fined $140.) One of his favorite hangouts was Harry's Pub, a small dark bar where the sounds of a jazz trio pour out onto a stone walkway. Says Mary Bell, a Singapore family therapist who works mostly with expatriates: "They really are just kids. When they are all together at Harry's Pub, it seems like they are a universe unto themselves...
...Simpson houseguest Kato Kaelin heard noises on the night of the slayings and that it appeared out of place because it did not have any dirt, twigs or leaves on it. Under cross-examination by defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey, Fuhrman said he didn't remember ever meeting Kathleen Bell, the woman who has accused him of making racial slurs...