Word: luke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...questions people are asking themselves now in Jonesboro, Ark.--How could this happen? What makes kids kill?--are the same questions they were wondering about last year in Pearl, Miss. In October, Luke Woodham, 16, having just stabbed his mother to death, arrived at Pearl High School and opened fire, killing two and wounding seven. Assistant principal Joel Myrick subdued Woodham at gunpoint and held him until police arrived. "I kept asking him, Why, why, why?" Myrick later recalled. "He said, 'Mr. Myrick, the world has wronged...
Picture the bullnecked jailer in Cool Hand Luke, throw in some of former Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo, add a touch of Yosemite Sam and you get Sheriff Joe. And right now the boss hog, who averages a speech a day and makes Madonna look like a media wallflower, is wowing the retirees with lines about how he'd hate to be in a top bunk tonight...
...Jason W. Luke '94, an associate manager of FMO who is responsible for ordering toilet paper for upperclass houses, said that experience shows that rolls of the two-ply toilet paper get used quicker than their thinner counterpart...
Some folks blame the big country-radio stations, whose playlists lull listeners. "The stations play the same 50 records every week," says Mercury Nashville president Luke Lewis. "I call it Prozac radio." The hope never dies for a purer, "alternative" country voice, but that's hard to find on mainstream radio. "A lot of program directors come from the rock format," says Holly Gleason, a premier Nashville publicist who has midwifed the careers of stars Patty Loveless and Collin Raye, "and don't have a feeling for the country tradition. Their allegiance isn't to the roots...
...Luke Z. Fenchel '99, a Crimson executive who is not a transfer student, said he was also unable to vote using the council's computer program...