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...Jenkins feared his father so much that after cutting out of class early the in ninth grade, he asked his younger brother, recent Green Bay Packers signee Cullen Jenkins, to punch him in the face so it looked like the principal sent him home after a schoolyard brawl. Cullen refused, then heard strange sounds emanating from the bathroom - Kris was right-hooking himself in the eye. Since he couldn?t fully mutilate his face, Jenkins came clean to his dad. ?For once, he let Kris off easy,? Cullen says. ?It was just too damn funny to get mad about...
...defendant duo's message to the European Commission was blunt: Sorry, some of us are more equal than others, and don't slap us with a heavy fine just because we broke the stability pact. They won the day for the same reason that a schoolyard bully gets away with stealing lunch money: the others simply aren't strong enough to stop him. So Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal voted to suspend the pact and to withhold sanctions. The duo's defiance is reminiscent of the U.S. going to war against Iraq without a U.N. mandate...
Lethem, whose previous novel Motherless Brooklyn was named the “Book of the Year” by Esquire, is very engaged in his characters. This was clearly evident at the reading; he eagerly mimicked the dull hulk of a schoolyard bully; he let the squeak of a scared submissive jump from his lips. Clad in tight jeans, a bright yellow shirt and Costello glasses, Lethem was as colorful as his characters themselves...
...definitive moment of Noam Chomsky’s life came when he was only six years old. One day after class, one of Chomsky’s classmates threatened to beat up a defenseless fat kid in the schoolyard with the help of his older brother. Chomsky describes his reaction to the scene in the documentary Manufacturing Consent: “I remember going up to stand next to him. I did for a while, but then I got scared and went away. I was very much ashamed of it afterwards. I felt—I’ll never...
Instead of standing up to the bully by himself, Chomsky should convince the rest of the kids in the schoolyard to rise up with him and actually make the bully back down...