Word: witch
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This letter is in reference to Zachary S. Podolsky’s column on Harvard’s reaction to Blair Hornstine (“The Blair Witch Hunts,” May 16). Unexpectedly finding myself mentioned as a signer of a petition that supposedly represents “arrogance and hypocrisy,” I feel the need to question Podolsky’s quickness to judge me (and the others who have spoken out against her lawsuit...
Blair Hornstine is, to quote John F. Kennedy, Jr. talking about several of his cousins, a “poster child for bad behavior” (Column, “The Blair Witch Hunts,” May 16). And Blair is certainly as “lacking in character” as some poor schlump whose only sin was that he wanted to get out of an early decision commitment to Yale...
...what one online message-board poster sarcastically dubbed the “Blair Witch Project,” students of Moorestown High School and other web surfers have posted angry reactions to the case ranging from vulgar to violent to disgusted...
...purified the air and warded off respiratory ailments. Karl, who edits the Asian edition of TIME and is based in Hong Kong, thought this was just another exotic story, the week's equivalent of Japanese schoolgirls selling their underwear or a neighborhood committee in East Java beheading a suspected witch. These dispatches, however, were the first media reports about the disease we now call SARS...
...prison, she endured rape, beatings and unspeakable torture. In the hospital, she was subjected to countless sessions of shock therapy and powerful sedatives. Along the way, her mind became unhinged, her memories scrambled and her face frozen in a mask of permanent terror. "They have turned me into a witch," she says, ruefully pulling at her stringy hair, which she has dyed the color of tea. "They have made me horrible." Until a month ago, Nouman was incarcerated at al-Rashad, Baghdad's main mental hospital. When U.S. forces began taking the city, the staff ran away, enabling inmates...