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...Until two months ago, the 45-year-old was co-chair of the environment-friendly Green party, the junior coalition partner in the government. The daughter of a car mechanic and a hospital aide, Künast overcame her parents' wish that she drop out of school in the ninth grade to learn a trade. Instead, she went to a technical high school and then to university, where she earned a law degree. With her punk hair style, she seems the embodiment of trendy Berlin, a world apart from the farms of rural Germany. The leftist taz newspaper described...
That was the case with the high school student represented by Micki Moran, a family-law attorney in the Chicago suburbs. In 1999, nine days after Columbine, the student, a ninth-grade boy from Wheeling, Ill., was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, though the police considered more serious charges, including mayhem. Classmates thought of him as an "unpopular nerd," Moran says, and made fun of his black clothes. One day at lunch, a group of kids approached him; one said, "You're like those kids at Columbine." The boy responded, "I could be." On the strength of those three...
...tournament in which the top eight competitors in each weapon secure a berth, Katz finished fourth and Blase snuck in at the final slot. Blase's fate was briefly in doubt, as she actually finished ninth among the foilists...
...budget, you'd think Nelson and the others would all be jumping up and shouting "Hallelujah!" As Bush tells it, we can afford guns and butter, higher spending and lower taxes, missile defense and a prescription-drug benefit, Social Security forever. After a month that felt more like the ninth season of the Clinton Show than the first of Bush's, the new President's address last Tuesday had the air of a second Inauguration. In a real sense, it marked the beginning of his presidency, the moment when the new guy started filling his suit. The performance was, well...
...Monday, Santana High School was rocked by the sort of tragedy that has occurred with alarming frequency in the past few years. A ninth-grader, characterized as an outsider and somewhat fragile, followed through on his threats--he brought a gun to school and shot a dozen people, killing two classmates. Santee, Calif., is a 10-minute drive from my house, a place with good reservoirs in which to fish and around which to walk the dog. Unfortunately, it did not come as a surprise...