Word: notes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yuba Country, Calif. Undersheriff Gary Finch yesterday reading from a note found near the dead body of Heaven's Gate cult member Robert L. Nichols, whose death was an apparent suicide...
...dead belonged to the Heaven's Gate cult, details about which soon surfaced from a video suicide note the group had made and a Website documenting the group's beliefs (accessible at http://pathfinder.com/@@4mMj9gYAd Z9*V0S3/news/heavensgate...
...settlement struck a resonant note at the Clinton White House, which has been seeking to ban the promoting and selling of cigarettes to children. For example, the Administration strongly backs new Food and Drug Administration rules that require smokers up to the age of 27 to show photo ID cards when buying cigarettes. (The regulations bar tobacco sales to anyone under the age of 18.) Said Vice President Gore, who greeted the Liggett deal as a breath of fresh air in a smoke-filled room: "It's about time the tobacco companies told the American people the truth...
...Suicide notes left by Heaven's Gate cult members may raise new questions about why some committed suicide. A note dated March 19 from a woman who called herself Golden indicates that she believed cult leader Marshall Applewhite was dying: "Once He is gone there is nothing left here on the face of the Earth for me, no reason to stay a moment longer." Some members apparently believe their leader was dying of cancer, but the coroner's office found no evidence of cancer in Applewhite's body. The newly-discovered notes, called "Earth Exit Statements," were on two computer...
...youthful Princess Aurora in "The Sleeping Beauty," Ponomarenko dances with the broken-hearted delicacy of an innocent girl losing her first love to another woman. Her mournful poignancy pulls at one's heartstrings so much that one cannot be completely sympathetic toward Carmen. On a more upbeat note, however, DiMarco and his fellow toreadors strut their stuff with a confident grace that compliments that of Carmen herself. Berdo, as the torn Don Jose, alternates well between his haughty, machismo corporal side and his madwith-passion lover side. And of course, Suarez and her various partners meld with a vibrant fluidity...