Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classroom, a few students whispered, "Get her now! Get her now!" while others said, "You better not." The assistant principal intervened and ordered the two conspirators to her office, where she confiscated the knife and called the police. Last Friday, Okiki and Marlena were charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. Now parents, teachers and the 700 students at Irving Middle School in Lorain, Ohio, a racially mixed, economically strained town of 70,000, are looking for explanations. They are talking about the growing gang violence, the drug syndicates from New York City and Detroit that use Lorain...
Kalkanis is a second-semester senior. Most chair candidates in the past have been juniors. The last second-semester senior who served as chair was Ken Lee '89, and several members expressed concern over a senior chair's ability to commit time to the council and ensure the continuity of the council between the spring and the fall...
...this does not let Yale off the hook. The university must commit itself to active participation in insuring the future economic stability and vitality of New Haven. Instead of making taller fences, it must do something to stop New Haven's bleeding...
...others to understand the things we do not say; where we trust a higher harmony to assert itself. We all know how treacherous are words, and how often we use them to paper over embarrassment, or emptiness, or fear of the larger spaces that silence brings. "Words, words, words" commit us to positions we do not really hold, the imperatives of chatter; words are what we use for lies, false promises and gossip. We babble with strangers; with intimates we can be silent. We "make conversation" when we are at a loss; we unmake it when we are alone...
Then there is the discomfiting pattern that, though men are three times as likely as women to commit suicide, so far all of Dr. Kevorkian's suicide patients have been female. It's not that he has any special fondness for watching women die, but rather, he has explained, because "women are just far more realistic about facing death and have got the guts to do it." Kevorkian considers his treatment a form of toughlove. He recalls his first client, ^ Janet Adkins, a vibrant 54-year-old just diagnosed with Alzheimer's who sought out Kevorkian because she was terrified...