Word: freaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coast Guard officials see the case as a freak tragedy with no larger lessons. Still, some in the Coast Guard are asking whether the institution should have let the potentially career-ending charges hang over Blanchard for so long. By comparison, when a top Navy admiral suggested during a breakfast with the press last year that U.S. servicemen charged in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl would have been smarter to hire a prostitute instead, he was out of his job by dinnertime. "The stress level went up as it dragged on and on," Connie Blanchard says...
McVeigh: I know it's human nature to not ignore what you've heard in the press, but I would ask them to be objective and open-minded. I have been misunderstood through labeling. Speed freak. Gun freak. Loner. My defense attorneys have said that people they have interviewed give a completely different picture...
This weekend was supposed to be a quiet getaway. But after the McDougals arrived and checked into their hotel for the night, they awoke the next morning to discover that a freak snowstorm had blown in overnight. Jim wanted to stay in, and in no time, Susan noticed, was scanning the real estate ads in the local paper. Suddenly he looked up with a gleam in his eye. "Look at this," he told Susan. "Twelve hundred acres in Marion County for less than $100 an acre." It struck him as an amazingly good deal. "Is there any land in America...
...mail etiquette." And Paul Martin, chair of the Faculty of Arts Sciences Committee on Information Technology insisted that mass mailings could "bring the system to its knees." The most extreme reaction was a piece of anonymous graffiti scrawled on Simons' message board, which called him an "immoral e-mail freak." We can envision whoever wrote that little epithet wrapping his arms around his computer and whispering "don't worry, it'll be all right...
Poor Daniel A. Simon '99. He is simply a spirited a-capella singer who thought he'd volunteer to advertise for last night's Opportunes-Callbacks concert by sending an e-mail message to a lot of people. The next thing he knows, people are scrawling "Immoral E-Mail Freak" on his Canaday door, and the front page of this newspaper describes the ensuing fallout as an "outrage...