Word: exception
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...education. In my school, boys and girls, who had jointly attended elementary school, were placed on separate campuses during middle school. The rationale was that girls matured earlier, both physically and intellectually, and that during this time of divergent development, it was best to keep boys and girls apart, except for the occasional (and highly awkward) social function. On the boys' campus, teachers played off our desire to become "men." Men studied hard and played hard. Men tucked their shirts in their pants. In the hallways, testosterone-laden behavior, like body checks into the lockers, was rampant...
...warning that the massacre should not be used "as an excuse to go and take away guns." He sounded like gun lobbyist Neal Knox, who fretted that "fresh victims" bring out the "anti-gun" fanatics. The other Republican presidential contenders avoided blaming weapons in favor of blaming the culture, except McCain, who flicked at the gun problem in a joint letter with Democrats asking for a White House summit on the entertainment industry. Texas Governor George W. Bush found himself doing another waffle. Responding to Littleton, he said he supported background checks for people buying weapons at Texas gun shows...
ROLE PLAYING These games look like movies, except the players direct the action and the dialogue and must solve problems to find their way out of each "scene." The MONKEY ISLAND series (latest: CURSE OF MONKEY ISLAND) is O.K. for all ages; GRIM FANDANGO, with its noir-ish themes, is better for mature teens and adults...
...deeper unknowable, though, is who you were before the guns locked you into a sentence. The only question that ever ought to matter to my colleagues and our customers is the one we do not ask except in retrospect, after the guns or the scandal: Who are we all in silence--at a table in the cafeteria, at a table in the library? What can journalists tell others about the mind we all share, the innocent mind and the murderous? That is the real news of your death. That is the news I want to remember next week, when Kosovo...
...introduced by the propaganda minister to make Jew hating fun for German boys and girls. Later in 1937, the headline reads "German Jews Concerned about Hitler's 'Kill All Jews' Proposal." Samuel Eisenstein is quoted in the article as saying, "Most of Chancellor Hitler's speech I agreed with, except for the part where he said that the Jews are a parasite race that has for 4,000 years made a practice of attaching itself to a host country and sucking it dry....I am beginning to sense that I am not welcome here." In 1939, the headline reads "Hitler...