Word: murdered
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...might think that this community would be even more sensitive to mental illness than most given the fact that at least one student, and sometimes more, commits suicide each year. Moreover, the tragedy of the Dunster House murder-suicide is barely more than two years distant, and is still a part of the institutional memory. Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that even after such a conscience-shattering event, little has changed in the life of the University...
This point was most graphically made to me in the fall semester following the Dunster tragedy: when suggestions were solicited for the new Mather House t-shirt slogan, one resident tutor wryly offered: "Twenty-five years and no murder-suicides." What moved me was not so much the macabre humor, but the stark realization that no one realized just how close Mather House had been to a similar tragedy just months before...
...book is a narrative of a sensational murder case in a small town in Idaho...
Though the murder took place in 1905, Halberstam emphasized the relevance of Lukas's book to today. He said that the eight years of work on the book took a toll on Lukas, who suffered from clinical depression...
...death is finally no longer a conspiracy, according to Kenneth Starr. Of course, he might be in on it with them. So see some of 'them' in the odd thriller The Parallax View (1974), with Warren Beatty as a bush-league reporter snared in conspiratorial quicksand by the murder of a senator. The commission men in the dimly lit hall deliver the movie's stock line: "Although I'm certain that it will do nothing to discourage the conspiracy peddlers, there is no evidence of any wider conspiracy. None whatsoever...