Word: schoolyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arkansas schoolyard deaths have given CAP laws a national push. Partly in response to the Jonesboro shootings, Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois this week will introduce federal CAP legislation. Says Durbin: "It's time for the adults who own the guns to act responsibly, to store them safely and to take responsibility for the guns in their possession...
Slate's Scott Shuger found that although USAT led with the schoolyard shooting in Arkansas, there was other news out there. The NYT led with a green-card snafu at INS, and WP and LAT went with President Clinton's sounded-awfully-like-an-apology-but-wasn't remarks in Uganda over how the U.S. "wronged" Africa with the slave trade. Apparently the comments were impromptu, and are giving aides fits...
DONALD "DON" TRUMP AGE: 51 OCCUPATION: Self-promotion through buying and selling others BEST PUNCH: Never too busy to return schoolyard taunts or discuss radio ratings, Trump penned a letter to Imus: "If your ratings were as good as my book sales, you would not be mired in 13th-or-so place...
DIED. WILLIE PASTRANO, 62, fleet-foot boxer whose nimble moves inspired Muhammad Ali; of cancer; in New Orleans. A chubby child who was the butt of many a schoolyard joke, Pastrano dropped the pounds--and his opponents--in the ring, becoming world light-heavyweight champion in the 1960s...
That was all fine. Braving the schoolyard each morning was another matter. While everyone else stood around discussing the latest episode of Chopper One or Charlie's Angels, I was Lost in Space...