Word: happened
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...perhaps one of the most patronizing suggestions to appear on the Crimson's editorial page (Opinion, Apr. 8). Tuck argues so passionately that we ought to treat homeless people with "human decency," yet she herself simultaneously patronizes the homeless by suggesting that they are somehow foreign beings who just happen to pervade our student landscape...
...jump cost about $65, plus $20 for a videotape of the experience. "Why so expensive?" I asked. "Because of high insurance premiums," the woman answered. No added comfort there. The required waiver wasn't very reassuring either. I was accepting full responsibility for anything that might happen, and indemnifying A.J. Hackett against any liability, even if the company proved negligent. Essentially, the employees could hit me over the head and toss me off the tower without a bungy and my family would be powerless...
...short, four Jewish males from nearly identical backgrounds, on paper, happen to hold views that range the American political and cultural spectrum. Moreover, these four thinkers happen to be among the most influential and important individuals on the American intellectual scene since the 1950s...
Patience, patience, patience, as an umpire, and then unwavering insistence. If you're afraid of making a mistake, don't open your big mouth until you're good and ready. One of the worst things that can happen to an umpire is to find that you've waved a runner "safe" with your hands but with your mouth you've called her "out." Which to believe? Occasions like this raise an interesting philosophical dilemma, testing the umpire's loyalty to action and language, and forcing him to choose between the two. Although actions may speak louder than words, the action...
...questions people are asking themselves now in Jonesboro, Ark.--How could this happen? 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...