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Senate majority leader Bob Dole, the current Republican front runner, made it official and formally declared he is a candidate for President. He was followed into the ring by one of the G.O.P.'s darker horses: California Congressman Bob Dornan, an ultra-conservative firebrand. Dornan becomes the seventh Republican to enter the race...
...once the recruits are in the cult's grip, they encounter a darker side, even if they do not recognize it. Their charismatic leader preaches that they are surrounded by enemies, that nonbelievers are out to crush them and that God commands vengeance. In some sects they are told to commit violent acts, says Hoffman, "because the only way they can hasten redemption or achieve salvation is to eliminate the nonbelievers...
Perhaps on even darker note, a handful ofstudents who failed to produce their theses by 5p.m. faced the grim reality of a grade reduction...
Clark recalled a "Grissergram" he received during one of the "darker moments of my early deanship...
...Nolde's works are lost souls: evil and good, freaks and beauties. The two shows contain a wide representation of his portraits, spanning his entire career. In the watercolors, Nolde's figures acquire a doll-like, clownish appearance which manifests itself in surreal examples of innocence. Nolde's darker lithographs, woodcuts and etchings of "goblins and grotesques," and even humans are a periscope into worlds of fantasy and reality...