Word: lunching
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...some, his remoteness was an irresistible challenge. Shane Moore, a 21-year-old from Woodbridge, Va., once had lunch with him basically on a dare from his roommate, who had known Cho in high school. The goal was to see if they could make him laugh. "I didn't know him," says Moore. "We'd try to talk to him, but he'd barely respond ... so one day my roommate challenged himself to get him to talk to us. We told him a joke." That day, they actually extracted a chuckle. But to other students, to know...
...other Republicans questioned Gonzales before lunch and they were easier on him. Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas simply ran down the list of ousted U.S. attorneys, asking why they had been fired. Gonzales delivered his well-practiced responses. Sen. Orrin Hatch provided the kind of leading questions that are designed to help a witness dig himself out of hole. Gonzales tentatively took the opportunity. After a mid-morning break Sen. Cornyn, an old colleague of Gonzales' from Texas, was equally deferential...
...essential virtue "will show through," was tough on the Attorney General. Sessions took particular issue with Gonzales' statement that he could not remember the specifics of a November 27 meeting of top Justice Department officials to discuss the dismissals, only 10 days before they were carried out. During the lunch break, Sessions told TIME, "I'm troubled, very troubled that the Attorney General just flatly stated he had no recollections of the meeting in November. It's not like it was three or four years ago; it was just last November." His inability to remember was "frankly not plausible...
...gently suggested that the firings may have actually been the result of general personality and ideological conflicts rather than the performance issues that the Justice Department has pointed to, but Gonzales rejected that claim. "Why is your story changing?" a clearly frustrated Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa asked after lunch, referring to the fact that the Attorney General now accepts responsibility for the firings...
...April 20, 1999 Richard Castaldo, then 17, was eating lunch on the lawn with Rachel Scott when Harris and Klebold attacked. They killed her and shot him in the arm, chest, back and abdomen, damaging his lungs, kidney and spleen. A spinal cord injury will confine him to a wheelchair for life...