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...used his father's gun, and under California law that means the father could be open to criminal prosecution. The backlash against violence is reverberating beyond Williams' family as well: Thursday, four students who reportedly heard Williams talking about his planned rampage and who dismissed his plans as "a joke" were barred from returning to school for the rest of the year. And while school officials insisted the suspension was for these students' own safety, there is an indisputable air of retribution about the action. Why didn't you tell anyone? You could have saved two lives and incalculable pain...
...Coming to Harvard got me working on my inside game more," Clemente says. "And in my four years, my defense has just gotten so much better. I always joke with people that [Harvard] Coach [Frank] Sullivan is the best coach in the country because he actually got me to play some defense...
Players in every sport deliver stock phrases about respecting their opponents and valuing their competition. But when squash players from various teams and countries sit next to each other and compare cuts on their legs, when they joke with each other and when they exhibit camaraderie off the court, you really get the feeling that they mean...
Israelis like to joke that if three of them sit around a table discussing politics, four or five different points of view will emerge. And yet throughout much of their half-century history, Israelis have often treated politics as an unaffordable luxury in the face of external threats, turning at such moments to crisis coalitions uniting parties from opposite poles of the ideological spectrum. Even in tranquil times, the most consistent incubator of Israeli political leaders has been the military - the preeminent institution of national unity and security. This is the backdrop to Wednesday's inauguration of Ariel Sharon...
...this last phrase cropping up everywhere from George W. Bush billboards to Budweiser ads to the cover of TIME. Then Kansas City computer programmer and part-time deejay Jeffrey Ray Roberts, 23, sampled the quote and added an annoyingly catchy dance track. "I did it for the sheer inside-joke value," he says. "Everyone was trying to one-up each other." Next came a two-minute music video, and soon "All your base!" was being yelled out of dorm windows on campuses around the country. Much like its Web predecessors, the Dancing Baby and the "I kiss you!" home page...