Word: brokenly
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Childhood should be a game of waiting in the wings, of playing at hearts, broken then mended, of rehearsing life, falling but protected. But the news out of Jonesboro, Ark., last week was a monstrous anomaly: a boundary had been crossed that should not have been. It was a violation terrible enough to warrant waking the President of the U.S. at midnight on his visit to Africa, robbing him of sleep till daylight. It was news horrifying enough to cause parents all over America to wonder if they were doing enough to wall away their children from the bad angels...
...bloodshed sparked by another broken heart? Candace Porter, one of the girls injured in the shooting, was supposedly the object of Mitchell's affection. But she is said to have told him that she did not want a boyfriend. Stephanie Engels, Candace's cousin, says Candace had sought out her teachers, telling them that Mitchell seemed upset and violent. "She was really worried," says Engels. "But I don't think the school took any notice of it." Principal Karen Curtner insists that neither she nor any teachers were informed of such reports. But, says sixth-grader Kara Tate, "he said...
John and Patsy Ramsey have broken their long silence on the murder of their daughter JonBenet and are talking at length to a London production company that plans to air an hour-long documentary on Britain's Channel 4. Producer David Mills is also discussing a deal that will get the show aired in the U.S. Mills and his partner, University of Colorado journalism professor Michael Tracey, bill the interview as a no-holds-barred session, in which no questions went unanswered. If so, this will be remarkable, given the Ramseys' reluctance to talk to anyone, including the Boulder, Colo...
...always difficult to place your trust in someone else--even more so once that trust has been broken. Nobody likes to feel like they've been had. The millions of Clinton supporters who believed in their president now won't get fooled again. Jones and Clinton both contributed something we definitely do not need more of--cynicism. It's not fair to just blame Jones and her supporters for this ugly episode. Much of the responsibility rests squarely on the shoulders of the man in the Oval Office. Had he kept up his end of the deal, the damage done...
Harvard, however, will have to go without defending Ivy League Player of the Year Brian Ralph. The senior centerfielder, who led the team with a .390 batting average last season and never ceases to amaze with his glove, is nursing a broken bone in his hand and will not play this weekend...