Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...genuinely touching. In the novel's finest section, Grady visits his in-laws' Passover Seder in a fruitless attempt to win back his wife, Emily. Emily is one of three Korean orphans adopted by a suburban Jewish couple, Irv and Marie, and this improbable family becomes for Grady the warm, loving home he desperately needs...
...Warm weather, no classes, nine o'clock games in the morning...
Some 10 hours later and 200 miles south of Chicago, at least 300 journalists tried to stay warm under a crescent moon as they waited outside the Indiana Youth Center in Plainfield. They came from as far away as Brazil and Germany to watch prisoner No. 922335 emerge after three years of incarceration for rape. The prisoner was Mike Tyson, once the No. 1 heavyweight in the world and a fighter some thought could be the best there ever was. Although everyone there knew he would get out at around 6 a.m., they were eager for a sign that Tyson...
Small, charismatic cults are adopting more violent methods as well. These extremist sects appeal to many people in an antispiritual age because they combine their empowering theology with a warm, supportive environment, at least at first. Those who join become part of a close-knit body of believers who are convinced they understand the meaning of history and what the future holds. That was true of David Koresh's Branch Davidians, and it applies to certain extremist Christian white-supremacist groups bent on "purifying...
...where the faculty ethics committee charged that Professor James Maas, a star of the psychology department, harassed four of his former students by hugging and kissing them, buying them expensive presents and making suggestive remarks. Maas calls his behavior affectionate and innocent, an effort to make Cornell a more "warm and caring place"; the angry students call it unwelcome and intimidating. Cornell, with no written policy on student-faculty romance, had a typically equivocal response: the popular professor was stripped of a $25,000 teaching award that he had received in 1993--honoring him for, among other things, creating...