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...Wednesday, police arrested about 500 demonstrators, dragging many of them feet-first into buses and speeding them off to detention centers, where some of them idly communicated among themselves by flashing in Morse code with their laser pens. Schell and his police chief, Norm Stamper, seemed taken by surprise by the calamity caused by the demonstration. If so, they were the only ones. Protest leaders had long promised as much, and websites have been bubbling for months about the gathering. Hundreds of would-be demonstrators attended camps in civil disobedience this summer in preparation. In a building not far from...
...SHOW] The Norm Show...
Witnesses to the Seattle shooting said they had never seen the gunman before, but police chief Norm Stamper called it "a deliberate, calculated act." Area schools under lockdown were reopened the day after the shooting, but with the suspect still at large over the weekend, police urged residents to use extra caution. They were not, however, encouraged to stay home from work...
Springer has worked hard all summer to come back from a season riddled with injury. However, some of her rehabilitation therapy may not fit the norm for a NCAA athlete...
...base Tuesday's class on readings that no one did the night before. Bright kids get bored; slow kids get lost; the kids in the middle muddle through. Her colleague Bob Hutcheson puts it this way: "I wonder if among their peers, there isn't a certain norm of mediocrity. And if they shoot for the middle, they'll always settle for less...