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...black clothes. One day at lunch, a group of kids approached him; one said, "You're like those kids at Columbine." The boy responded, "I could be." On the strength of those three little words, Moran says, hysteria broke out at the school as rumors swirled about his possible intent. His locker was searched, and the baseball bat found inside was labeled a weapon. The entire school was evacuated. The boy spent six months in counseling and is now flourishing at another school. The school has said that under the circumstances, it acted appropriately...
...tide will turn any time soon. Indeed, health-care professionals helping pick up the pieces of lives shattered by doping dependency say the only real hope is that fans stage a revolt-not out of love for the game or the players, but from fear that their children, intent on attaining sporting glory, may wind up with the booby prize of addiction...
Search committee member Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, intent on preserving some modicum of Corporation secrecy, fanned the flames. He told Healy that "kids can get it wrong sometimes," leaving the reporter to write in Saturday's Globe that "more than most of the finalists, Summers has made people at Harvard nervous...
...also consult generational differences. Whites of Byrd's generation might sometimes have said "n-----" in the past without any consciously malevolent intent. Land sakes, the word was just sort of casual, conversational, descriptive. Nothing ugly meant. It has often been noted that Harry Truman used the word, which was part of his native Missouri's culture, you might say. And Truman was the man who integrated the armed forces...
...Budget and Policy Priorities, the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, Interior, Justice and Labor, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, would experience cuts totaling $230 billion--and steeper reductions might be needed to fund other expensive programs such as a national missile defense. The Republican leadership seems intent on passing the tax bills before the budget process is finalized, meaning that Congress will have voted for billions in budget cuts without considering where they might fall...