Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Upon returning to America, expecting the usual back-to-school ritual exchanges of hugs and how-was-your-summers, Harlow received a shock: he was not penciled in for Eliot housing after...
Tuesday's indictments follow an 11-month grand jury investigation initiated after Krueger's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity brothers allegedly left the first-year student to choke on his own vomit during an initiation ritual. Krueger died two days after being found in a coma in the fraternity house basement...
What emerged instead was a fearsome slew of questions born of other disasters. As the slow search for debris, bodies and the telltale "black boxes" proceeded--a ritual so morbidly familiar from the TWA Flight 800 crash two years ago--speculation reached for existing paradigms that would explain the fate of a plane belonging to an airline of sterling reputation. What is known of the cockpit's communications with air-traffic controllers appears to rule out terrorism. But not the terror of mechanical failure. And so the questions were asked. Was it a problem akin to what most probably destroyed...
WASHINGTON: Janet Reno has been through this ritual before: first a 30-day inquiry, then a 90-day inquiry, then... nothing. Not so this time; the attorney general's decision late Tuesday to launch a 90-day probe into the Clinton/Gore '96 campaign could, says TIME Justice Department correspondent Elaine Shannon, be "the mother of all probes...
Jackson held a press conference the next day and hit every network, presenting the tableau that the drama had been missing: the repentant father, the angry mother, the isolated daughter. The story needed its cleansing ritual of contrition and penitence and absolution. That was a high bar for Clinton to clear: a coerced confession doesn't count as much as a voluntary one, but he very deliberately chose not to give that back in January, when there was still a chance the lies might work. Still, if Clinton's sex life was his own business and not ours, then...