Word: californianism
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...incidents in their past, it's still hard to get young males to come forward while the abuse is going on. "The last thing I want to do as a teenager is run around telling everybody some priest gave me a b___ j__," says John Falls, a grown-up Californian who says he was molested by his boyhood priest. Says Neil Blake, a New Mexico lawyer litigating abuse cases: "I don't know if priests are still out there molesting kids, because they won't tell anyone about it. We'll find out in about...
...weary--and wary--New Yorker. And a handful of you cautioned that a discussion of how to prevent more attacks not only might be unnerving but also might invite them. "I'm surprised at how openly you release information about America's insufficient resources and unpreparedness," remarked a Californian. "Whatever the FBI and CIA are doing should stay secret," agreed another California reader. "Why are we giving ideas to terrorists who are likely still in our country...
Four years is a long time to wait for four minutes on Olympic ice, and this was a hard defeat for the 21-year-old Californian, who won silver at Nagano in 1992. Her disappointment and surprise at finding herself with bronze this time was as deep as Hughes' ecstatic shock at having defeated her idol. Puffy-eyed from crying when she skated out to receive her medal, Kwan will now wrestle with the burden of dealing with an Olympic victory that has slipped from her hands not once but twice. "I just wanted to come home with the gold...
...contented users, such as one letter from FK in Palm Springs. “I use [Jimmy Surf] to surf my sister’s computer and she never finds out where I’ve been online,” extols FK. What sites has the Californian been frequenting? Thanks to Guttman and Houston, the world and FK’s poor sister will never know...
...Gould, a sun-loving Californian with strong Stanford roots running at least three generations deep, her first experience of life along the Charles left her somewhat underwhelmed. It seemed that Palo Alto was becoming more and more of a reality...