Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday, March 22, around the time that the disciples of Heaven's Gate were just beginning their quiet and meticulous self-extinction, a small cottage in the French Canadian village of St.-Casimir exploded into flames. Inside the burning house were five people, all disciples of the Order of the Solar Temple. Since 1994, 74 members of that group have gone to their death in Canada, Switzerland and France. In St.-Casimir the dead were Didier Queze, 39, a baker, his wife Chantale Goupillot, 41, her mother and two others of the faithful. At the last minute the Queze children...
...seems unlikely that the source of this quiet on the peer counseling front is the unusually strong mental and psychological health of the Harvard community. We may be uber-students in many respects, but we still struggle with problems and deal with tragedy. Granted, there remains a social stigma attached to counseling in any form, even that non-threatening variety that comes from your peers. However, I believe that the root of the under-utilization of peer counseling groups stems from a more structural source...
Further on in the volume, Pinsky writes of estrangement in America, of an anonymous killer murdering a woman on a quiet Oregon highway. To this grisly image, he compares America's foreign policy, her intrusion in strange lands. Pinsky writes...
...They were really quiet and withdrawn," Leung said. "The older one seemed kind of unhappy. They looked dirty because they had been swimming in the ocean all day. It struck us as kind...
During the 1996 campaign, Democratic fund raisers recruited some donors who wanted something so badly that both donor and recipient agreed it might be better to keep the whole thing quiet. But "soft money" is easy to trace: the large unregulated contributions show up in FEC reports. So the Democratic National Committee buried the money trail, handing out lists of needy state parties so donors could funnel their money where it would be harder to find. In return, D.N.C. chairman Don Fowler and his staff made sure that assorted Chinese businessmen and now oil financiers got a hearing from...