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FOILED MAY 13, 1999 Port Huron, Mich. Their plan, police said, was to outdo Columbine perpetrators Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold by arming themselves, forcing the principal of Holland Woods Middle School to call an assembly and then killing teachers, classmates and themselves. Jedaiah (David) Zinzo and Justin Schnepp, both 14, made a list of 154 targets, stole a building plan from the school custodian's office and plotted to use one gun to steal more. Classmates caught wind of the plot and reported it to the assistant principal. Zinzo and Schnepp were sentenced to four years' probation...
...know things are very bad when a top U.S. government official admits failure. Even before he has taken the job. Last month, while still just a nominee for Secretary of Transportation, Norm Mineta was already warning airline passengers that this summer would outdo even the terrible summer of 2000 for awfulness. "I need to be very candid with you," he told a Senate committee. "We are likely to have similar--or worse--delay problems this year as well. We simply have an air-traffic-control system that has not been able to keep pace with rapidly rising demand...
Patrick's debut is stronger--he's a commanding figure, and the premiere gets back to the meat of the show's mythology--but the real test will come when Doggett and Scully work side by side. Of course, neither man can be expected to outdo his precursor, but we're not expecting Olivier. We'll settle for no more Olivers. --With reporting by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
Live events were similarly jollied up. With baseball, a sport with which locals are not overly familiar, Australia showed that it's possible to outdo even Triple-A ballparks with cartoonish bells and whistles. At every foul ball, loudspeakers blasted the sound of smashing glass--even if they were grounders. One can't help feeling there's a lesson here for the steeplechase or dressage. Those top hats are just begging for a visual...
...felt a nerve tweak in the back of my neck from the massive cringe I suffered through the rest of the movie. After being crowned Miss Illinois, Mona tries to outdo Miss Texas (Bridget Wilson) who was hospitalized for giving marrow to her foster sister in meaningless altruism. One particular scene in which she carts a pregnant woman to the hospital in a shopping cart full of marshmallows (no, it doesn't make more sense when you actually see it) had me gawking in dumbfounded amazement at the brazen act of courage which it must have taken for the producers...