Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...culture of pressure--and shame--dominates the educational and professional ladders. The consequence of a fall from grace can be suicide, seen not as the ultimate tragedy but as an understandable or inevitable decision if linked to recent failure. Even prior to the news of Asia's financial crisis, the number of white-collar suicides was quite high. According to the National Police Agency, suicides in Japan in 1996 totaled about 23,000, more than double the number of traffic fatalities. Meanwhile, the reluctance to admit there are indeed problems has seeped onto the economic bargaining table in the most...
...that white people are the true Israelites, has moved in subtly. "They look for small autonomous country churches with no debt and a bank account," says Craig. "They fire the pastor, they get tax status and what looks like the Shady Grove Baptist Church; well, they are singing Amazing Grace and then saying Sieg Heil." Killing in the name of religious and racial purity is within the moral contract of Christian Identity, say experts. Authorities last week were checking if any of the three suspects had associated with the area Christian Identity churches...
...Reported by Julie Grace with the Chicago Bulls, John U. Bacon/Detroit and Sally B. Donnelly/Washington
...reconstruction of the Mayflower and a preserved waterfront also grace Plymouth's harbor. The town pays homage to eastern Massachusetts' staple crop as the home of Cranberry World...
...Washington, D.C. The Getaway (1972). Noir cinema reaches its apotheosis with Peckinpah's rendering of Jim Thompson. Throw in the coolest white man ever (Steve McQueen) and you've got a scorcher. Rear Window (1954). Well, actually, the whole Hitchcock canon, actually, but my pick is Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. Down By Law (1986). Jim Jarmusch's extended character study (incorporating a few digs at Hollywood convention) is probably the funniest American movie ever made. Rebel Without a Cause (1955). The cinematic codification of the obsession with youth that dominated postwar American pop culture. Platoon (1986). Oliver Stone takes...