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During his time at Harvard, he was ManagingEditor of The Crimson and was involved in theinfamous prank when Crimson editors stole theHarvard Lampoon's ibis and presented it to avisiting Soviet diplomat...
Heritage students thought the first shots from Solomon's rifle were firecrackers, just like the ones used in last year's senior prank. Solomon maintained a dazed expression as he began randomly firing into the school's indoor commons. "He wasn't aiming," says junior Ryan Rosa, one of his victims. "He was holding it down low... He was not chasing people." In other words, Solomon went about his work almost reluctantly, shooting literally from the hip with a pump-action sport...
...lunch hour when the sounds of the firing erupted outside. Students saw two boys in trench coats and masks firing at kids; one tossed something up onto the roof of the school, and it exploded in a flash. Some kids thought it was the long-awaited senior prank; they had been expecting balloons filled with shaving cream. Surely those are firecrackers, they thought. Surely those guns are fake. Is the blood fake? Can a fake bomb make walls shake? Then they were screaming and running. One boy could feel the rush of a bullet past his head...
...over the phone, she could be overheard desperately trying to warn the kids. "There's a guy with a gun!" she yelled, bleeding. "Kids, under the table! Kids, stay on the floor! Oh, God. Oh, God--kids, just stay down!" At first, Craig Scott thought it was all a prank, maybe the teacher was in on it. But the noise was real, and the fear was real, and he ducked under a table with his friend Matt Kechter and one of Columbine's few black students, a senior named Isaiah Shoels. And they heard the gunmen come...
Here's how it works. Let's say you are deeply involved in the Harvard Model Ad Board, and this weekend you have to play the part of a student accused of making prank calls to Menu Man. In the days leading up to the event, every second of your time is filled with mock depositions and practiced forced confessions of your heinous model crimes. You tell yourself that you have only sequestered yourself for legal purposes for the next few days, and that on Sunday you will be back to your normal self. But on Sunday, you have some...