Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regardless of how you interpret the letter, however, it seems clear that Dean Buell isn't telling the full truth. If he honestly believes that outpourings of grief on the part of dozens of dedicated teachers deserves no consideration whatsoever, I've got some office space at a community college I'd like to sell...
...silence takes its toll. With no acceptable outlet for their rage or grief, children often cause trouble in school. Boys, especially, may run afoul of the police. Some teenagers turn to indiscriminate sex or shooting drugs -- as though they are daring the AIDS virus to do to them what it did to their parents...
...counselors at the St. Francis Center in Washington have helped the kids cope with depression, fear of abandonment, and the lifelike visions some have of their dead parents. "The teenagers, in particular, are caught in a squeeze," says Dottie Ward-Wimmer, a nurse at St. Francis who specializes in grief counseling. "They're older. They're smarter. They know that if their mother had cancer, people would feel sorry for them rather than shun them." Professionals at the Henry Street Settlement in New York City have found that if youngsters talk with one another about what they are going through...
...allergy. He stands on the edge of high buildings daring the winds or a misstep to carry him away. He deliberately crashes his car into a wall at high speed. Nothing can touch him -- except the plight of Carla, who has been reduced to an almost catatonic state by grief. He feels compelled to bring her back to life, and he is quite obnoxious in this, his final rescue attempt...
...were gunned down, the first suspicion was of a Mafia hit. But the mangled condition of the bodies argued for a motive of hatred rather than business. Though they pretended to discover the bodies, Lyle, then 21, and Erik, 18, did not put on a very convincing show of grief; they went on a $700,000 spending spree with the insurance money. In March 1990, Judalon Smyth told police that after being asked to sit outside the office of her then lover, psychologist Jerome Oziel, she had overheard the brothers admit the killings to Oziel. Police seized Oziel's tapes...