Word: faults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Times finds fault with Heaven's Gate for assuming "Godlike power" and determining that suicide was the way to the heavens. But provided that the rights of others are not infringed upon, and provided that suicide is chosen not out of despair but out of a firm commitment to a theological belief, society cannot fairly decry the choices made by Heaven's Gate...
...onslaught of pop psychology that has followed the grim discoveries at Rancho Santa Fe, so-called mind control experts have speculated that the fault somehow lay in the tech world, that something about the Web explained Heaven's Gate and the isolation of its members from the cushioning norms of society. Not true. The cult had been around for 22 years, and had seen better days. Most of its members were Web novices at best. Yet in some ways, the Web was made for groups like this. For it is not the culture of the Internet, but its utility...
...onslaught of pop psychology that has followed the grim discoveries at Rancho Santa Fe, so-called mind control experts have speculated that the fault somehow lay in the tech world, that something about the Web explained Heaven's Gate and the isolation of its members from the cushioning norms of society. Not true. The cult had been around for 22 years, and had seen better days. Most of its members were Web novices at best. Yet in some ways, the Web was made for groups like this. For it is not the culture of the Internet, but its utility...
...while Soto does not fault the ICIC for the demise of his business, he does feel that, as originally conceived, the initiative needs to better help entrepreneurs put ideas into practice...
...other mandate: turning up a chatty group of the subject's friends and relatives. Producers can generally procure interviews with living subjects too (if not, they rely on existing news footage), since the series does not aim for Hard Copy-esque lambasting. If anything, Biography is uncritical to a fault. An episode on Carl Sagan had movie producer Lynda Obst rhapsodizing about the astronomer's romance with her friend Annie Druyan. The sing-songy-voiced narrator seemed just as enchanted with the story, even though the reality was far from a fairy tale: Sagan was married and a father when...