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...What makes kids kill?--are the same questions they were wondering about last year in Pearl, Miss. In October, Luke Woodham, 16, having just stabbed his mother to death, arrived at Pearl High School and opened fire, killing two and wounding seven. Assistant principal Joel Myrick subdued Woodham at gunpoint and held him until police arrived. "I kept asking him, Why, why, why?" Myrick later recalled. "He said, 'Mr. Myrick, the world has wronged...
...Ghana's capital of Accra. Complained the Rev. Jesse Jackson, shepherding Clinton across the African continent: "A half-million people were reduced to 40. So America saw us through a keyhole rather than a door." Unruly mobs in sweltering heat, photo ops with men who came to power at gunpoint, people dancing in brilliantly colored garb: those were often the familiar scenes seized on by the press...
...midnight Sunday morning, police responded to a distress call of an undergraduate student, who said he was robbed outside the Barker Center. The preceding week, a business school student was robbed at gunpoint while crossing a footbridge over the Charles River...
...Harvard Business School (HBS) student was robbed at gunpoint early Friday morning while crossing the Weeks Footbridge...
...stay in the capital city, we watched agents for the Preservation of Virtue and Elimination of Vice enforce an endless list of edicts and absurdities at gunpoint, with rifle butts, with the backs of their hands. Women are forbidden to wear high heels or white socks because they are considered a sexual lure. Music is banned: cassettes are often snatched out of cars, the tapes stripped out and hung on signs as a warning. Kites may not be flown, and most forms of public entertainment, like movies, are not permitted...