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FOILED AUG. 24, 1999 Northeast Florida Two teenagers were charged with conspiracy to commit second-degree murder after a teacher saw drawings, one of which depicted a bloody knife, a shotgun and an assault weapon. The teens allegedly described themselves as Satan worshippers and claimed they were planning to leave a deadlier trail than the one at Columbine. Charges were dropped for lack of evidence, and the boys were released from house arrest...
FOILED MARCH 7, 2001 Twentynine Palms, Calif. Cori Aragon, left, with her mother, was one of 16 students at Monument High School in the Mojave Desert to discover that their names were allegedly on the hit list of two 17-year-old boys arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder and civil rights violations. Tipped off by a female student who overheard the boys' plans, police said they found a rifle in one home, the list in the other. The boys' names were not released. This was the most serious case to follow the Santee shootings. But 14 other...
...People said we would never be able to get people to commit to a two-month trip, but we did it," Stone said...
...more teachers so that we may have more small-group instructional settings; find us the physical space our student groups and our Houses need to grow; include us at the table when the University makes decisions. We don't expect magic wands and miracles, but if he can commit to these three goals, he will make a dramatic impact on the lives of Harvard undergraduates. And if he follows through with them, he will leave Harvard in a better position than he found...
Federal hate-crimes legislation has been on the books since 1969, but stronger and more comprehensive revisions are needed. Currently, individuals can be prosecuted under federal law if they commit a crime against an individual due to racial, religious or national bias, and the victim is engaged in a "federally protected activity." "Federally protected activities" include voting, serving on a jury, registering for school, taking part in a federal program and not much else. So the current hate-crimes legislation is limited in two ways. It only covers crimes based on race, religion or national bias (to the exclusion...