Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...killers went round the room, asking people why they should let them live. Students heard one girl pleading for her life, then a shot, and quiet. They told wounded kids to quit crying; it will all be over soon, you'll all be dead. They approached another girl, cowering under a table, yelled "Peekaboo!" and shot her in the neck. Anyone who cried or moaned was shot again...
Craig took off his white baseball hat and hid it. When the killers walked by, they saw Isaiah and called him a "nigger." He pleaded with them not to shoot, just let him go home, he wanted his mom, and they pulled the trigger. Then they shot Matt. Craig, covered in his friends' blood, lay very, very still. As he told Katie Couric two mornings later, in an account almost unbearable to watch, Craig began praying for courage. "God told me to get out of there," he said. So he got up and started to run, yelling to others...
...Arcata, however, where 74% of voters approved the state's marijuana measure, Chief Brown considers his policy one of common sense. "Out of self-preservation," he says, he set up his own system. Now about 100 local residents have sat for mug shots, agreed to let Brown talk to their physicians, and walked away with a "City of Arcata Proposition 215 Identification Card." Flash it as you are toking up and you won't be arrested, unless you've got more than 10 marijuana plants--a limit imposed to distinguish users from illegal dealers...
...years, in part because he wants full ownership of his output. By rerecording his catalog and releasing it on his own label, he'll retain control of the master recordings--not to mention reap more profits. Plus, the Artist believes, improved technology will make the music sound better. Let's just hope he won't be inspired to reshoot Under the Cherry Moon...
...version of, say, the sinking of the Maine, or the Kent State shootings during Vietnam, or Rock Hudson's death. These moments can be dangerous, as such soul searching quickly turns into lawmaking. History may remember last week because of what happens in the next few weeks, so let's try to get it right...