Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There has been one copycat suicide in California, apparently by a nonmember, a sobering presage to the cult's Web invitation posted soon after: "During a brief window of time, some may wish to follow us...If you should choose to do this, logistically, it is preferred that you make this exit somewhere in the area of the West or Southwest of the United States...You must call on the name of Ti and Do to assist you...We suggest that anyone serious about considering this go into their most quiet place and ask, scream, with all their being." Enough...
...became the U.S.C. coach in the middle of last season--Arizona and Southern Cal are Pac 10 rivals. In January, on the eve of Arizona's visit to U.S.C., Mike told the Orange County Register, "You know, my mom isn't a famous person like my dad. But I wish when they say, 'Mike Bibby, son of Henry Bibby,' and all that stuff, I wish they could just say, 'Son of Virginia Bibby.' She's the reason I'm here. That...
...character she plays on Ellen, her three-year-old ABC sitcom, discover that she--the character, that is--is a lesbian. For DeGeneres, 39, the decision was the culmination of a long process of struggling with feelings about her own sexuality, her fears about being rejected for it, her wish to lead a more honest and open life in public, her weariness at the effort it took her not to. For the public, the news was a sensation: a gay lead on TV--that would be a first, and to those who attach importance to these sorts of things, either...
...belonged to the gay community, I never felt like I belonged to the straight community. I've really felt like this in-between. I watched the whole Gay Pride march in Washington in 1993, and I wept when I saw that. I mean I cried so hard, thinking, "I wish I could be there," because I never felt like I belonged anywhere...
...party boy, as in Republican Clint Eastwood's Absolute Power, or a slow-to-anger knight in shining armor, as in Democrat Rob Reiner's The American President? Or maybe he's just a compassionate fellow who lives to minister to fatally ill kids, as in A Child's Wish, a recent TV movie on cbs. That President was played in a cameo by Bill Clinton, which made him the first Chief Executive to play himself as a character in an actual drama, as opposed to a character in a photo op, press conference or some other bit of contemporary...