Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other interviews, Atwood has explained that she chose to set The Handmaid's Maid at Harvard because of its connection to early Puritan America. Harvard was originally founded to train Puritan ministers...
...woman who knows a thing or two about trying times sat next to me on the train the other day. Gladys, who now resides in Milton, Mass., survived the Blitz in England during WWII. "Those were some trying times," she recalled. "When you said goodbye to your family and friends in the morning, you never knew if would see them again...
...asked to be hospitalized in New York because he was terrified of phantom voices. Instead, budget-conscious officials most often referred him to short-term emergency care. Last year, in a psychotic state, he shoved a woman from a subway platform to her death under the wheels of a train...
INDICTED. ALI MOHAMED, 46, former Army sergeant; on federal charges that he helped train terrorists implicated in the World Trade Center bombing and those suspected of last summer's U.S. embassy bombing in Kenya; in New York City. Mohamed is an Egyptian native whose three-year U.S. Army stint ended...
...causes the epidemic of imitation? "You need a cat to do the copying," says Harvard psychologist William Pollack. "It starts with kids who are already somewhere close to the edge." Copycats model themselves on crimes, both real and fictional, that grab a lot of attention. When the movie Money Train came out a few years ago, with a scene of flammable liquid being squirted into a New York City token booth and set on fire, real-life robbers duplicated the act and badly burned a token clerk. After the TV movie The Burning Bed aired in 1984, with Farrah Fawcett...