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...played the best two games we played all year [Saturday]," Binkowski said. "If we would've played that way in the six other games we lost in the Ivy League, yesterday's game would not have been the knife that drew blood...
...School in Flint, Mich., I am compelled to set the record straight about the day that six-year-old Kayla Rolland was shot by her classmate. Contrary to the account of the student that TIME published [NATION, March 13], the little boy who shot Kayla did not have a knife taken away from him the morning of the shooting. Officials who interviewed the staff after the shooting concluded that no one knew anything about a knife (or a gun) before the attack. Michigan has a tough, zero-tolerance law regarding weapons in schools. Our school employees pushed for that...
...Michael D. Park ’03 has a split-pocket personality. On his left side, he is your average Nokia-less Harvard freshman, with a phone card he often mistakes for his ID. His left pocket is cargo. He is G.I. Mike, with a silver mini army knife and a climbing Carabiner advertising 1-800-MARINES. “I have this whole military motif going on. [I would join the Marines] if there was a war or something.” He pauses. “But not for kicks.” That must be the left...
...global population in the year 2050 will be somewhere between 7.3 billion and 10.7 billion, depending on how fast the fertility rate falls. The difference between the high scenario and the low scenario? Just one child per couple. With the species poised on that kind of demographic knife edge, it pays for those couples to make their choices carefully. --Reported by William Dowell/New York, Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi and Dick Thompson/Washington
...spliced into an inversion of The Bonfire of the Vanities. In Tom Wolfe's novel, Wall Streeter Sherman McCoy accidentally kills someone and gets hounded by an entire city. Patrick, who works at the same fictional firm as McCoy (Pierce and Pierce, if you get the joke's knife point), slaughters half a dozen people, or maybe 20 or 40; and not only does he get away with the crimes, but he can't get anyone to believe him when he confesses. This is partly because his friends are as vacant as he is; they talk but don't listen...