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...morning, Tim Kretschmer, a 17-year-old former student of Albertville Realschule entered the school's plain, white flat-roofed building wielding a 9mm Beretta and, as a police spokesman described it, "simply opened fire". On his rampage through classrooms and corridors, the youngster, clad in black combat gear and reportedly wearing a mask, killed nine pupils, all of them aged 14 or 15, and three women teachers, and injured seven others. One of the injured students died later at a hospital. See pictures of the aftermath of the Virginia Tech tragedy...
...MFAs.) But it's a somewhat ironic turn, given that Stanley failed his art classes when he was at the High School of Music and Art in New York City in the 1960s. "I'm a very hard worker," he says softly, surveying a long line of excited, Kiss-gear-clad fans and buyers. "But it has to be on my own terms." (See the 100 best albums of all time...
...timeout when we were down 4-0,” Halpern said. “We knew we could do it; we were better than them, but playing down to their level.” UMass managed to put one more on the board before Harvard kicked into gear, bringing the score to 5-0. “We took the time out to regroup,” junior tri-captain Sara Flood said. “We just needed to get back out there and chip away, goal by goal.” Just a minute after the Minutewomen?...
Intermission - A couple of youngsters are running down the ice, putting on Harvard hockey gear. The girl in the No. 2 jersey gets to the puck first and sends it into the net to the tune of the theme song from Super Mario Bros...
...rose through the ranks from customer service into sales. In her best year, she racked up so much overtime that she outearned her supervisor, grossing some $42,000 - not far from the middle of the pack of U.S. incomes. And if she sometimes spent too freely on clothes and gear for her girls, she was able to balance the books by drawing on her equity in the home she bought in 1995. (Read about the history of the American middle class...