Word: totems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Birnes and Norris have divided the serial-killer life into seven phases of activity, a repeating cycle that begins with desire and ends with morose feelings -- aura, trolling, wooing, capture, murder, totem and depression. They kill to satisfy some inner psychological and sexual pressure, and they favor such killing methods as hanging, strangling or stabbing, which put them in intimate contact with their victim. "The only time serial murderers have control is when they kill," says Birnes. "That's why they keep totems." For instance: the body parts Dahmer put in his refrigerator, the victims' jewelry that Rifkin kept...
...loss left the Crimson a dejected prime contender for the bottom position on the Ivy League totem pole...
...eras and two related departments. A better reporter might subject the building to a hard-nosed critique, but this one, dear readers, treats it as a structure worthy of reverence. Call him crazy. Call this the Cult of The Link. Call it whatever; but first, get to know his totem...
Some of the teachers who stay become increasingly resentful at having to leave. If Harvard were a totem pole, Expos faculty would be on the part that is under the ground, but it is still the Harvard totem pole. It's all downhill from here. The thought of having to teach more students for less money at a place like (God forbid!) Boston College causes the bile to rise. And guess who becomes the chief focus of all that anger...
Here, perhaps, is where the reality of educational policy at Harvard seems to mirror the Expos program's symbolic place at the bottom of the Faculty totem pole...