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...playing a game called “whirlyball” in which two teams of players ride in bumper cars and throw a wiffleball into a goal using a plastic scoop. “We played about five rounds today. We thought we were just going to come here [afterward] and hang out and eat dinner,” Konopka said. “We didn’t know about any of this ‘Double Dare’ stuff.” However, band members said they enjoyed the battle. Konopka told a fan after the show...
...preliminary qualifying rounds, [so] my goal is to make it to finals this year at nationals.” “As the season is ending, the team is getting better as a whole,” Irani added. With Penn Relays next weekend and Heptagonals shortly afterward, the onus is on Harvard to finish the season on a strong note...
From a corporate point of view, the world has become more difficult because almost no crisis is just a local issue. Coca-Cola learned that lesson in 1999, says Dezenhall, when several Belgian children reportedly were sickened after drinking the soft drink. Soon afterward, similar reports appeared in France and other European countries. Coke responded slowly, he says, and underestimated how quickly Europe's simmering anti-Americanism would snowball into a p.r. disaster. "When outrage takes over, there is no emotion more powerful than the urge to place blame," Dezenhall says. "Coke found itself the beneficiary of an entire continent...
...killing to play out, when the crime is finally over, the shooter almost never expects to survive. Indeed, he typically doesn't want to. Achieving the state of nihilistic certainty that's necessary to commit the killings is one thing; crossing back to the world of the living afterward may be well-nigh impossible. "They are both homicidal and suicidal," says Pollack. "After the attack they are simply waiting for the next step, which they assume is the police shooting them." Most killers don't wait even that long, taking their own lives before whatever killing room they have barricaded...
...Police asked Cho to speak to a counselor from a local mental-health facility; afterward, a magistrate issued a temporary detention order committing Cho to a psychiatric hospital. It's very difficult to obtain such orders; patients must not only be deemed mentally ill but unfit to care for themselves or an immediate danger. Court records show that Cho was not deemed an imminent threat, but it should have been clear by then that he was deeply troubled...