Word: commitement
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...really listen because she's too busy freaking out that her 13-year-old daughter Zivia has run away from home. Ed, Pat's redneck husband, is still mad at Ian, his brother, because Ian gave Ed's new play a bad review and caused an actor to commit suicide. Zivia, however, has become a heroin addict and enjoys dancing wildly to "I Put a Spell on You" by Screamin' Jay Hawkins. C.C. calls her old friend Porter, who helped her in drug rehab last year, to help Zivia. Ian comes prancing in and, after much pomp and circumstance, agrees...
...through the girls' minds at that moment, and in the end perhaps it doesn't matter. What matters is the wreckage the girls left behind: families and friends grief-stricken and bewildered--and extremely vulnerable. Amber and Alicia were not the first students from San Pedro High School to commit suicide this year; in March, Christopher Mills, a junior, and his girlfriend Heidi Chamberlain, who went to a different school, also leaped to their death from the cliffs by the Pacific. So the second double suicide ignited fear of a chain reaction. (In fact, a few days later...
...check." She says she called it quits when Gordon insisted that she perform in a porno flick. So one morning as he showered, she dashed to a waiting car driven by her brother Randy, who spirited her away. Gordon, who has been convicted of attempted bribery and conspiracy to commit pandering, says, "Latoya is a liar, an absolute liar...
...suicide of Admiral Mike Boorda, U.S. Chief of Naval Operations [NATION, May 27], creates a chance for us to understand better why a man takes his own life. In general, four times as many men commit suicide as do women. When I did research for my book The Myth of Male Power, I had to ask, "If men are the powerful sex, why are they the 'suicide sex'?" I found, first, that the more boys in any society learn the traditional male role of keeping feelings and fears to themselves, the more they commit suicide. Second, almost every person...
...chair and secretary of the group, Tweed Roosevelt '64 (great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, who donated the antler chandeliers which have illuminated the Great Hall for decades) and H.A. Crosby Forbes '50, the commit- tee members wrote over 100 letters to President Neil L. Rudenstine, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles and Director of Planning for FAS Philip J. Parsons...