Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knee-jerk reaction to suicide is for students and administrators to convince themselves that any suicide is an aberration that suicide happens only to mal-adjusted loners. But this attitude is the problem. Suicides happen to athletes like Annelle Fitzpatrick '00, and musicians like Katherine L. Tucker '94. They happen to David Okrent '99, Benjamin R. Hanson '97-'98, Jason D. Altom and Ansgar Hansen '97. Suicides are ordinary events that happen to ordinary people. To brand suicides, suicidal tendencies or feelings of depression as inherently abnormal and to ostracize their occurrence from the mainstream the way one removes...
...schoolmates with 22 shots. They also killed a teacher, Shannon Wright, 32, Mitchell Wright's wife. Says he: "The ballistics report shows the Johnson boy fired five shots and had five direct hits. He hit one person in the head, he hit my wife in the chest and the knee and two girls in the knee area." The shooter, Wright recalls, stood up in court and said that he was sorry, that he was not trying to kill anyone, that he and his friend were shooting over the heads of the teachers and students they had tricked into assembling outside...
...reigning master of modern dance is feeling frisky these days: Fiddlers Green (which had its New York City premiere on March 3 and is now touring) is a toe-tapping, knee-slapping barn dance set in Eden, performed in front of a deep green backdrop by five men in white overalls and five women in white thigh-high shifts. The score is John's Book of Alleged Dances, a collection of minimalist hoedowns composed by John Adams and played by the Kronos Quartet; the steps have the feather-light touch of such early Taylor masterpieces as Aureole and Airs, with...
...Ideally, your cap should be worn low enough on the head so that you can monitor its shape at all times. Should you perceive any distortions, remove the cap immediately and place the brim on your knee. Perform any necessary adjustments by hand, using your knee to measure your progress...
Margaret, you may not have known Monica, but we sure did after seeing more than 60,000 pages in Starr's report and supporting documents. Lewinsky knew exactly what she was doing when she packed her "presidential knee pads." Don't let her fool you. How can Carlson say Monica "was her usual Garboesque self"? Give me a break! Greta Garbo was known for the haunting beauty that made her an enigmatic legend. ANDRES G. SANCHEZ Valley Village, Calif...