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...small letters on the side of one of the bedroom doors, where he would only find it several months later--after prolonged hangovers which would prevent him from ever suspecting anyone but Craig could have wrote it. And our most sophisticated plan involved leaving the house absolutely spotless but throwing all of the beds into the backyard. The scene unfolds...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Derrick Was Here | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

RANCHO SANTA FE, California: The Benedictine monks painstakingly hand-copied manuscripts so that their order could sustain itself self-sustaining revenue from within its walls. The Higher Source made web sites. In a sprawling, spotless mansion packed with bulk food and computer hardware, at least forty modern-day monks designed and built web sites for businesses on the outside, including the San Diego Polo Club, a movie company, and a British maker of airline parts. On Wednesday, in three neatly planned shifts, they died. The world saw Jonestown, felt Waco, and cried cult. And this time, a cult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open Window | 3/27/1997 | See Source »

While the doctors' records may be spotless, some students say problems with UHS still exist...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: UHS: Clean Bill of Health? | 2/14/1997 | See Source »

...members are simply cowards, afraid to do more than write graffiti in secret. But since Harvard is such a liberal establishment, coming out as a member of the KKK is a daunting challenge. Most students would probably jeer their classmates if they saw them rushing through the Yard in spotless white sheets and pointy hoods. If the Klan held cross burnings in the Quad, such activities would undoubtedly be misunderstood and ridiculed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD.ORG.KKK | 4/6/1996 | See Source »

...evil exists, then what happened in the gymnasium at Primary 1 was evil. An eruption of such violence aimed at such targets, at such spotless innocence and hope, cannot be comprehended or diagnosed in language that is less than absolute. "Haywire" won't do. "Psychotic," "maniac" and so on suggest mere dysfunction, or else a morally neutral spasm of the reptilian brain, a bug or two in the limbic system. Nor is there much comfort in thinking that such behavior arises from some Darwinian maladaption. "Man has developed so rapidly," Loren Eiseley wrote, "that he has suffered a major loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNCONSCIOUS HUMS, DESTROY! | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

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