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From The Portland Business Journal, October 18, 1998 Nurse Chris Olson still remembers the suicide victim’s face like it was yesterday. It was a slow Sunday and the man was in a holding cell at the Multnomah County Detention Center in downtown Portland. “All of a sudden they screamed for a nurse,” recounts Olson, who […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, October 13, 1998. Not available elsewhere online. A woman obsesses on the biblical passage dealing with Ezekiel’s Wheel. She interprets it as a command to drive. She obeys until she crashes the car and is injured. Another woman hears God announcing intimate details of her life […]
By Robert Landauer – editorial columnist for The Oregonian, October 10, 1998. Not available elsewhere online. Ideas are most stirring when they serve people. A Washington County conference this week on “Violence and Mental Disorders” makes the point. Attendees’ eyes are drawn to a photo in the program of a serene young woman and to […]
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