Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...felt a little deflated," confessed Alan Berkman, physician to both the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army and the first doctor charged with "providing assistance and comfort" to fugitives since Samuel Mudd treated John Wilkes Booth in 1865. After two years on the run, Berkman was captured in 1985 and spent seven years in prison. He now works for the Osborne Association, helping released prisoners cope with life. "Kathy Power had become something of a mythic figure. Always out there, always free. The one the police couldn't catch...
...added in her only public statement, "The illegal acts I committed arose not from any desire for personal gain but from a deep philosophical and spiritual commitment that if a wrong exists, one must take active steps to stop it, regardless of the consequences to oneself in comfort or security...
...while it may be small comfort to studentskept out of the course of their dreams, therecould have been more lotteries...
First, a dilemma. How will we homeopathic nuts choose which store to frequent? The case with which one can feel at home in any boutique like that in the Square--most of them lining the increasingly chic lower Brattle Street area--is not unlike the comfort one feels when entering a McDonald's in a foreign land. Here is a new kind of home, a place where everything produces, a warm deja vu, a place where there is no worry the background music of Yanni can't cure...
...mother gets The Crimson at home. She doesn't really read it, but she always checks the menu and takes comfort in the fact that Mike Berry is feeding her daughter well...