Word: knockout
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Logan added that a close friend of McHugh saidplaying knockout the night of the murder was alie--that the story behind the game was afabrication sensationalized by the media...
...What's fascinating [about knockout] is itsmere incomprehensibility," said media critic andWHDH talk show host Mark Jurkowitz. "If the mediahas misconceptions it's because this is one of theareas it's least adept at understanding--what'shappening on the streets with young people...
...Rindge] is not a school of violence...We alllook like a callous bunch of idiots," said Rindgejunior Nell Whiting, a neighbor of McHugh. Andpart of the misconception about her school, shesays, results from played-up accounts of knockout,a game she could never imagine her fellowstudents, not to mention her childhood friend,playing...
...whether McHugh, Velez or Donovan could orcould not do something like playing knockout ormurdering a 21-year-old students is something thatthe media is not focusing on, say angered Rindgestudents. Rather the focus is wrongly on howRindge students are players in the game, theyouths charge...
Vincent Spencer, McHugh's guidance counselor atRindge and Latin also said he has never heard ofthe game in the hallways or in conference with hisstudents. He said he never got to know McHugh, oneof his 200 students. But he adds that he had neverheard about knockout in the school until lastweek, when the murder was announced...