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...Shortly before 4 a.m., [Johnson and a friend] decided to climb the fire escape using a rope with a hook to get to the top of the roof," said Laura Mikols, a public relations associate at B.U. "There were two other students who acted as lookouts...
Novak promises soap-stars with rope tricks, a new slate of student groups in bizarre acts, and-with visible pride-Bob Saget, star of the `80s television show Full House...
...about an hour of officers conversing with each other, a large white van arrived to remove the body. As the double-gloved police officers checked the man’s feet and pockets, a group of preschoolers approached on their daily afternoon walk, all attached to one of those rope-devices reminiscent of jail-lines. Seeing the children, the officers moved into super-speed body-bagging, wrenching the man’s arms down to fit into the bag. They zipped the bag up just as the children crossed the street, blocking the gurney from view with their bodies...
...Democratic gloating about Tom Daschle's big goal-line stand on the tax cut, the number is still $1.2 trillion (and headed higher). Maybe a little rope-a-dope is what "compassionate conservatism" is all about...
...last public hanging took place in 1937 in front of the courthouse in Galena, Mo., where 500 onlookers scrambled for pieces of the rope used to hang Roscoe Jackson, who murdered a traveling salesman. Thirty-five years after that spectacle, capital punishment was banned in America. Since its reinstatement in 1976, the death penalty has been sanitized and closeted. The rope in the town square begat Old Sparky, which begat lethal injection, both administered behind tall prison walls. Bringing executions back out into the open--not closed-circuit TV but TV--is a leap most often advocated by those...