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...stint. In the Administration's first few months, Foster seemed increasingly beaten down by controversies, especially the White House's inept handling of the staff firings in the travel office. On the afternoon of July 20, 1993, Vince Foster was found in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, dead from a gunshot wound...
...children will be arrested today for committing a violent crime; 9 of these arrests will be for murder. Today in America, according to the Pacific Center for Violence Prevention, one out of every four teenage deaths will be attributed to a firearm; more teenage boys will die from gunshot wounds than from all natural causes combined. Children in America are exposed to a tremendous amount of violence--in their homes, schools, communities, and through the media...
Counterpointing the Incandenza chronicle is the sorry saga of Don Gately, a former burglar and reformed drug addict who would rather suffer the agony of a gunshot wound than risk getting rehooked by pain killers. Ghosting through both densely detailed narratives is a group of legless Quebec separatists tasked with stealing Infinite Jest. They want to use its deadly amusing powers as a weapon. Filmmaker James Incandenza, was so entertained that he committed suicide by sticking his head in a hot-wired microwave oven...
...this makes you think of a shootout at the O.K. Corral where everyone dies of heart attacks instead of gunshot wounds, well, that's how part of last season felt. Of course, Harvard did have some good games last year, but it also had lots of under-achieving ones in between...
...them inch in toward the infield, until by the end Cal was taking ground balls hit by my third baseman, Doug DeCinces, while Billy was just a few paces behind him." One night, when DeCinces and the 12-year-old Cal were the last ones on the field, a gunshot rang out from behind the outfield fence, and a bullet hit the ground near Cal. DeCinces picked him up and carried him to the safety of the dugout...