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...movie Twister has sparked an upsurge in destructo-videos. Forces of Nature, a CBS special two weeks ago, featured grabby footage of tornadoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters. pbs's Savage Skies spent four hours last week chronicling nature's bad temper. More than two dozen severe-weather videos are on the market--available by mail order, in stores and online--including several from the Weather Channel (Target Tornado) and National Geographic (Nature's Fury!) as well as smaller outfits like Goodtimes Home Video (Twister: Fury on the Plains). Tornado!, a Fox TV movie that aired last week...
David, who graduated from Columbia University in 1970 with a degree in English, is a writer too, but of a different temper. In recent years he has produced stories and poems. Stuffed somewhere in a drawer, say friends, is an unpublished novel about baseball. "He's a man of few words," says Mary Ann Welch, a friend in Schenectady. "So it all comes out in his writing, very detailed and descriptive...
...period from about six to 10 years ago, there were instances in which I lost my temper and was discourteous and rude to support staff," Orren wrote in a written statement. "There were complaints about this to the Kennedy School Administration. I took the complaints very seriously and acknowledged that my behavior was unacceptable...
...David B. Lat's vicious blindsiding of VideoPros (Feb. 15, "Rudeness Runs Amok"). Aside from the fact that the piece is riddled with potentially libelous innuendo and free-wheeling "facts," the opinions are not enlightening or newsworthy, and merely reflect one person's vendetta that grew from a temper tantrum...
Instead, Larson urged Christians to "temper justice with mercy" and denounced a rigid legalistic view of Christ's teachings. "It's not a license for immorality," Larson was quick to add. "A Christian is not weak-willed...