Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Radcliffe College proposes a new "intellectual terrain" of women, gender and society, one of its own has garnered $245,000 for treading that ground...
Roses, carnations and lilies droop from the chain-link fence outside Thurston High School, and a makeshift plywood cross juts from the ground nearby. Beneath it, a hand-printed sign reads WILL WE EVER LEARN? But as the timber town of Springfield, Ore. (pop. 51,000), grieved last week, the lessons were far from obvious...
...like Kinkel, went through a "Goth" phase, dressing in black and voicing grim imaginings; Kinkel had a fascination with guns to match that of the Jonesboro boys; like the young man charged in West Paducah, he seemed possessed of a death wish. When he was finally wrestled to the ground and disarmed, Kinkel pleaded with his captors, "Just shoot me." But if these parallels are merely coincidental, others are not easily dismissed. Once again the murderous drama features a troubled youth and a community in which obtaining guns is easy. Once again a high school becomes the stage, with classmates...
...pattern of two tortured days of talks among the three parties in this complex dance: Justice trying to cover every last base before launching one of the biggest antitrust actions ever; Microsoft hoping to learn as much as possible about the DOJ's case without actually surrendering any serious ground; and those state attorneys general, who at the Monday press conference distributed bios along with their press releases, clearly relishing their role as Joel Klein's conscience. "Quite frankly," Vacco confides, "until last week we weren't 100% sure the Department of Justice was going...
...penny to the fund." On Friday the Mint retorted in a press release, saying, "This lawsuit must be a mistake," claiming that $1.5 million has been donated to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, a favorite charity of the late princess. In a bid to seize the high ground, the Mint goes on to say, "Name calling and baseless lawsuits of this type don't serve anyone--certainly not the memory of Princess Diana...