Word: reasonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason the Dirkhising story received so little play is because it offered no lessons. Shepard's murder touches on a host of complex and timely issues: intolerance, society's attitudes toward gays and the pressure to conform, the use of violence as a means of confronting one's demons. Jesse Dirkhising's death gives us nothing except the depravity of two sick men. There is no lesson here, no moral of tolerance, no hope to be gleaned in the punishment of the perpetrators. To be somehow equated with these monsters would be a bitter legacy indeed for Matthew Shepard...
...successes are also a reason why Healy has stirred resentment on the council...
...reason is that the bread and butter issue of Cambridge politics--rent control--is off the ballot, and its return isn't imminent...
There's a reason Salem is such a big draw: 300 years ago, as everyone who has read "The Crucible" in high school knows, 19 men and women were hanged here in a five-month witch craze spanning the summer...
...around witches and witchcraft, is a sort of macabre parody of a gruesome episode in the town's history. Everyone who comes to Haunted Happenings, the official name of the celebration, knows what happened in Salem to put it on the Halloween map. But that's just one more reason to buy the T-shirt. In the end, the witch trials are just a great excuse for a party...