Word: schoolyard
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...playground, in any nursery school, Brittany Abshire and West Redington would blend in perfectly with the other kids and the schoolyard clamor. Brittany, 2 1/2, is a chubby, mischievous chatterbox, and West, who turned one in August, is a grinning, inquisitive toddler who loves clambering up steps and the back of the sofa. As far as the world can see, there is nothing special about either of them. Wonderfully ordinary though they may be, however, young West and Brittany were conceived under extraordinary circumstances by parents who could barely believe the feat was possible. Just five years ago, in fact...
...such a disciplinary tool only works if it is taken seriously and unequivocally executed universally: complete silence, for a complete minute. Students would not even be allowed to clean their guns or sharpen their knives until 60 seconds have elapsed. At that point, usual classes and schoolyard violence would be allowed to resume...
...next time those left-wing counterculture wackos in Congress get the idea into our head to take away our firearms, I hope they realize what they're doing. Remember, an AK a day keeps the schoolyard bully away...
...however, the anti-tobacco forces are taking a page from the cigarette makers' own playbook. "This king-of-the-mountain game they've played is a game that would be played by a schoolyard bully," says Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard, chair of the Tobacco Products Liability Project, which conducts research for anti-tobacco lawsuits. "After you've beaten a couple of kids up, nobody dares take you on. But the moment the kids say, 'We can take him if we band together,' the bully is finished." It helps too that the new legal strategy of states filing third...
...whole life to become President (he says that after each day he spent in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he would write down the name of and an amusing anecdote about everyone he met), Bobby Cremins just had to give it his all on he court (he was a schoolyard legend who got a college scholarship to play Basketball) and on the sidelines. Bobby Cremins' triumph is unassailable...