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...Kirk Smets thought that the classified ad sounded too good to be true. But with no job, three kids and a fourth baby on the way last summer, the 28-year- old plasterer from Palmdale, California, was willing to try anything. The ad from a Florida company called Roblan Inc. described a spectacular offering: a tax-free $70,000-a-year job working on a construction crew overseas. Food, housing and medical expenses were all paid for. The lady at Roblan was enthusiastic. "They said I'd be working on hotels in the Caribbean, the Bahamas," says Smets. "They said...
...normally on the second-line, were bumped to four Saturday and stayed that way last night, according to the official line-sheet. But Tomassoni didn't obey the official listing: the Mallgrave-Flomen-hoft-Kirk Neilsen line was the first line to sub in. So much for the reshuffling...
Assistant principal Jacqueline Greenhill happened by and found the crying girl. "You can tell when a student is really upset," she says. The girl led Greenhill to another student, who sent her to another who finally revealed the plot: two girls were planning to kill teacher Jan Kirk, 46, at the end of class that morning. Something about being embarrassed or insulted by Kirk the | day before. Other students, maybe a dozen or so, wagered $200 in lunch money that the two wouldn't do it. But only fools bet against peer pressure. And the bell was about to ring...
Okiki did not seem like the type to make trouble. Her friends describe her as a quiet girl who lived alone with her mother. But she roared on the day before the knife incident, when Kirk yelled at her for not paying attention. When Okiki left the classroom, she complained about how the teacher "got in my face" and warned, "I'm going to kill her." Other students apparently teased her, and then began betting on the life of their English teacher...
...second period, Harvard looked like it was putting on a passing clinic as freshman Kirk Nielsen sliced the RPI defense wide open with a pass that left sophomore Ben Coughlin staring at an open...