Word: assaults
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Which may account for a basic appeal of these sports: their headlong assault on the weather. Or maybe it is the controlled craziness of the events. On surfaces difficult enough to walk on upright do these people race, leap, whirl, swerve, and then add an extra unnatural measure of defiance by going airborne. Fanatics. Only a spill proves them mortal. So reckless is their attitude that, watching them, one barely believes in the danger. Then someone's momentum is shattered, and a kid lies piled up in his skis like a broken bird. Silence replaces wonder...
Harvard Police made three arrests, one in Boston for possession of harcoties: and two in Cambridge in connection with the assault of police officer. None of the arrests involved students. Events of particular interest...
...PERSON getting his head beat in while others stand by watching, soon stops pretending to believe that these are just innocent by standers. He realizes, in fact, that they are hardly innocent, and in a very real sense, are actively helping the ones who are carrying out the actual assault. As someone once put it, those who aren't part of the solution are part of the problem...
...occupied West Bank. Based on John le Carré's best-selling novel, the movie stars Diane Keaton, 38, as Charlie, an impressionable English actress who is recruited by Israeli intelligence for a double-agent mission against Palestinian terrorists. Keaton trained with a bazooka and a Soviet-made assault rifle for one of her most dramatic scenes. Says Keaton: "I never did anything like that before. But I loved it." How about a sequel called Annie Hall Goes...
Before Francis Nakano became principal of Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles in 1982, the school was a combat zone. Teachers walked in fear of assault, gangs roamed the litter-strewn hallways, students were arrested for drug dealing, and vandals had just burned the administration building to the ground. The tough new principal changed all that. He painted the school, put in an alarm system, provided enough lunch benches for students to eat sitting down and bought some trash cans. He made each teacher responsible for the behavior of 120 students, and gang leaders were bluntly told...