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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Essentially, Shepard was lynched - taken from a bar, beaten and left to die because he was the vilified "other," whom society has often cast as an acceptable target of abuse; Dirkhising was just "another" to a pair of deviants. And while child abuse is unfortunately no big news, lynching still is. Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were not satisfying some animalistic sexual impulse, they were bullies who gratuitously killed someone out of hate for being different than they were. It wasn't about them, it was about Matthew Shepard. Because they dramatically reflected some of society's darkest influences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why One Murder Makes Page One and Another Is Lost in the News Briefs | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...Radcliffe wraps up its seven-year long, $100-million capital campaign, its die-hard fundraisers might move on to other non-profits that are still in the throes of a major campaign...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman and Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Exits Help Clear Out Radcliffe Structure | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...minutes and 57 seconds later the concert was finished, as Willis rejected the clamor for an encore. "Get the f--- out of here," he said. "My vocals are getting worse. I got to save my vocals for the next show in Buffalo, New York. Rock and roll will never die...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sucking a Caribou's Ass?: An Evening With the World's Weirdest Rock Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...taking it with me after I rise from the dead." Next came word from a Michigan woman who claimed, "Like Einstein, I am an avatar (a possessor of a Universal Mind), as well as the reincarnation of the Prophet Isaiah. At present, I am on hold, waiting to translate (die and take my body with me)." Last, a South Carolina minister said, "When we fully understand and accept the power of strenuous mental exercise to increase our capacity for works of genius, we may all ride through space on a beam of mental light and meet Einstein himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patrick Smith's Mailbag | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Your article on the recent study done by this commission warning of the dangers of letting infants sleep in adult beds was off base [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR FAMILY, Oct. 11]. We showed that every year 64 children under the age of two die in adult beds. Your article referred to the deaths as "only 64," but even one death is too many. Since 1989 the CPSC has warned that infants should never be put to sleep in adult beds because of the risk of entrapment or suffocation. This is the first study to quantify the number of fatalities resulting from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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