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...prepped for Harvard—if prepped is the right word for it—at a large public high school in Fort Worth, Texas. The dominant social activity there was going out on dates. From the day I turned sixteen and got my driver’s license until I graduated, I took girls out on dates as often as possible in our family’s Dodge...
DIED. JAMES MYERS, 81, co-writer of Rock Around the Clock (1954), heralded as the granddaddy of all rock-'n'-roll tunes; in Fort Myers, Fla. He estimated that he made $10 million in royalties for that one song, recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets, which stayed at No. 1 for eight weeks and sold 22 million copies...
...felt the next thing left to release my anger would be through violence. I had just gotten the idea from the shooting at Columbine High School on April 20." Solomon opened fire precisely one month after that date. Seth Trickey, who in 1999 shot and wounded five classmates in Fort Gibson, Okla., told a psychiatrist he had become preoccupied with previous school shooters and wondered how he would hold up in their shoes. Woodham told the cops who took his confession, "I guess everyone is going to remember...
...authorized to hire 500 new agents to combat domestic terrorism, and a number of Oklahoma City copycat plans were defused. In the past two years militia leaders have been jailed for plans to bomb power lines in Florida, federal buildings in Michigan and the Army base at Fort Hood in Texas...
This is the challenge to busy parents, working long hours, strung out at home. What would it take to create an easy, quiet space where you can just hang out with your kids, read a story or make one up, build a fort, make something goopy together? If in the process your children grow secure in the knowledge that you will forgive them for whatever they break or spill or forget, if they learn to share because you are sharing, if they don't have to fight for your attention, those skills may serve them better in the adventure that...