Word: grounds
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...officers at ground zero say hindsight doesn't do them justice. "People who weren't there don't understand," Deputy Paul Smoker, the second officer on the scene, told the Denver Rocky Mountain News. "It was unbelievable craziness." Part of the problem may be that the SWAT team was facing the emerging new paradigm of American crime: the school massacre. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold weren't bank robbers or hostage-takers; they wanted nothing except to kill, often and quickly, and they had the preparatory advantages of being insiders. Any of the hundreds of backpacks littering the hallways could...
While the throw wended its way from center to the cutoff man, Binkowski, belly to the ground, inched forward and, after two lunges, slapped the plate safely, much to the delight of the rest of the Harvard baseball team, which was watching and chuckling from the dugout steps...
While the throw wended its way from center to the cutoff man, Binkowski, belly to the ground, inched forward and, after two lunges, slapped the plate safely, much to the delight of the rest of the Harvard baseball team, which was watching and chuckling from the dugout steps...
...crime has decreased by 40 percent but police brutality in the same time period has increased by 60 percent, and 80 percent of the victims of this police brutality are people of color. Anthony Baez was murdered by the NYPD-he asphyxiated when an officer threw him to the ground in a choke hold after Baez had argued with the police for accosting his brother. The police warned Baez's mother to stay away from the Nation, but she ignored them. "I lost one son, but I gained hundreds," says Baez's mother of the Nation's support after...
...sooner than they'd like. Late Wednesday, the House voted 249-180, mostly along party lines, on a resolution that has commander in chief Bill Clinton -- who already has 18 NATO partners to deal with -- rubbing his temples: They want to require that Clinton get congressional approval before injecting "ground elements" into the conflict in Yugoslavia. Such vague language could mean Apache helicopters and definitely includes ground troops, but TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson says that for now, Republicans are just looking for a place to hide...