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...filling someone else's shoes," he says. "I'm not trying to outdo anyone. It's about structuring a department that allows it to respond as quickly as possible to its customers...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ted A. Mayer | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...vigilance is finally creeping into the suburbs. A frightening plot against a school was halted earlier this month in Port Huron, Mich., where authorities say a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old and two 14-year-olds, all boys, had been concocting a conspiracy to outdo Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The Michigan boys planned to take a gun from one of their fathers, use it to hold up a gun store for more weaponry, and then descend on Holland Woods Middle School to rape some of the girls and shoot many classmates. They had drawn up a list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just A Routine School Shooting | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...from Littleton, there is a growing political momentum to tighten the noose around the Second Amendment, which allows Americans to keep and bear arms. However, take a quick look around pop culture, and you will easily find examples of how violence is considered a creative outlet. Movies try to outdo one another in innovative gore, video games teach kids how to use guns, and the Internet is a wide-open forum. So while we're chipping away at the Second Amendment, why not peel back some layers of the First Amendment, which permits freedom of speech? Aren't we willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 24, 1999 | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...think it was highly political. The debatewas filled with finger-pointing," Murphy says."Candidates were trying to outdo themselves withteacher-bashing...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omaalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Questions of Validity Surround Teacher Tests | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...attain coupled nirvana, Spoon says: ³First, become inspired.² Then move to bigger and better things: outdo your best friends¹ weddings, scoff at their wine suggestions and secure the jealousy of every other couple at the gym. Keep track of your own honey though; this cosmopolitan rat race takes no prisoners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silver Spooon | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

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