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Killing sprees have become grimly commonplace in the U.S., but last Friday's horror in Winnetka, Ill., was particularly searing because the victims were schoolchildren. It began when Lori Dann, 30, shot and wounded an eight-year- old boy in the bathroom of the Hubbard Woods Elementary School. Dropping one pistol, she entered a second-grade classroom, where she opened fire with another revolver, killing one youngster and critically wounding four others. Dann fled to a nearby household, where she shot one occupant and barricaded herself in the building alone. When a police SWAT team finally burst in about seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: One Lunatic, Three Guns | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...sitter, temporarily trapping her former employer and two children in the basement (they escaped by smashing a window). Dann drove six blocks to the school; she may have been searching for her employer's other two children, who were away on field trips. Left behind in the bloody school bathroom after the rampage was Dann's .357 Magnum, for which she had a permit. Asked Winnetka Police Chief Herbert Timm: "How did a woman with that kind of background get licensed to carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: One Lunatic, Three Guns | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

EACH year sixteen hundred parents send their little bundles of protoplasm off to Harvard with great delight. In addition to the obvious pleasure of having finally rid themselves of the slimey things--many of which are notorious for leaving their towels on the bathroom floor--the parents are now prematurely afforded the opportunity to declare success to all who will listen. Until graduation, Harvard students are automatically granted, or burdened with, success status. After graduation, it becomes their job to maintain...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Stigma of a Harvard Degree | 5/25/1988 | See Source »

...letter, Salinger imagined a scene from the couple's domestic life: "I can see them at home evenings. Chaplin squatting grey and nude, atop his chiffonier, swinging his thyroid around his head by his bamboo cane, like a dead rat. Oona in an aquamarine gown, applauding madly from the bathroom." The banned Hamilton version: "At one point in a letter to Burnett ((Salinger)) provides a pen portrait of the Happy Hour Chez Chaplin: the comedian, ancient and unclothed, is brandishing his walking stick -- attached to the stick, and horribly resembling a lifeless rodent, is one of Chaplin's vital organs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted IN SEARCH OF J.D. SALINGER | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...Every night the complexion of Harvard changes when it's time to vacuum and clean the bathroom," said Visiting Professor from Practice Charles J. Ogletree Jr., one of the school's five Black law professors. He called for a reevaluation of the school's plan for hiring minority faculty, and all the speakers decried what they termed the University's apathy in regard to increasing the number of minority faculty members...

Author: By Pradeep P. Atluri, | Title: Rainy-Day Rally Caps 24 Hours of Occupation | 5/12/1988 | See Source »

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