Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia--Cambodian insurgents are apparently planning an attack on the nation's capital in the wake of a series of military victories in outlying areas, observers reported yesterday...
Most Predictable TV Trend: in the wake of the National Lampoon's Animal House, all three networks have announced frat-house sitcoms to premiere in early...
...hand, particularly when it reached hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee, where Gore was a member. "I was not in favor of the hearing," Gore said, according to a transcript leaked to Daily Variety. Last year, when the administration ordered the FTC study in the wake of the Columbine High School shootings, entertainment executives were furious at the prospect of being made scapegoats. As their contributions to Gore began drying up, Gore met with them privately in August 1999 and noted pointedly that the study (the same one he now touts) had been Bill Clinton's idea, not his - comments...
...They don't try to understand Kafka or Finnegans Wake...
...sure, traditionalist Catholics and Evangelical Protestants still talk of individual evil, original sin, even of the devil and demons-and did so in the wake of what happened in the jungles of Guyana. But these concepts have not exactly been popular among more liberal theologians. Brown University's John Giles Milhaven, for example, refuses to attach the label "evil" even to Jonestown. "I think what really happens with people like Hitler and Jones," says he, "is simple psychological sickness. The only response [to Guyana], it seems to me, is pity for everybody involved, not moral horror. Psychological illnesses that...