Word: commits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard juniors and a third Harvard-affiliated individual attempted to commit suicide within the three days preceding Thanksgiving vacation, according to Harvard police reports...
...speaking of De Mornay, "The Three Musketeers" is also a badly-acted movie, where some actors insist on speaking in a vaguely English accent (even though the movie takes place in France), and others commit blatant Americanisms. As D'Artagnan, for instance, Chris O'Donnell (who looks absolutely idiotic with long curly hair) introduces himself as "Dartaynian," and is constantly awing us with his eloquence--behold lines such as "my rear is killin' me." Most of the time, I found that I was actually embarrassed for the actors: De Mornay, so believably evil in "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle...
Last Saturday afternoon, several hundred Kevorkian supporters, including friends and family members of the people he had helped commit suicide, held a protest meeting outside the jail. Not all of them understood why he had decided on a hunger strike, but they were prepared to back...
...things you learn quickly on this campus is that you have to choose one thing to commit yourself to," says council member Hassen A. Sayeed '96. "But Carey has this astonishing ability to do billions of things here and not be insane, while maintaining commitments to them all, and doing everything with extraordinary flair," Sayeed adds...
...essential difference in philosophy underlies the confrontations at issue here. Journalists commit themselves to the idea that diffusion of knowledge is a great virtue. Though many in the public question newspapers' judgments on delicate issues, journalists adhere to this bottom line: if some error is inevitable, always err on the side of giving the people more information...