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...times that passion has knocked him off his hinges, as it did during a gun-control debate when he used his family's tragic deaths to attack former G.O.P. Representative Gerald Solomon. "Play with the Devil, die with the Devil!" Kennedy screamed. During the House vote to impeach Bill Clinton, he nearly came to blows with Georgia's Bob Barr over the Republican's use of a quote from President Kennedy. These outbursts have not hurt him in the eyes of his colleagues. Says Gephardt: "Patrick has the fire of idealism and the passion that Jack and Bobby...
...school-shooting accounts over the past few years, your story about 15-year-old T.J. Solomon, who fired on his classmates in Conyers, Ga. [SPECIAL REPORT, May 31], was the first to make me feel great sympathy for the shooter. In this case, as in some others, the shooter was being tormented by a popular classmate simply because he was quiet, a situation too many schools allow to go unchecked. I am 35, and still remember being picked on in high school and treated like an outsider. I clearly recall the ambivalent response by my teachers. I think kids today...
...they met: Rappaport's roommate, Leah J. Solomon '97, introduced them about a year ago on Memorial Day weekend. They started dating the following September...
Life is a highway: Rosen and Rappaport were riding a schoolbus driven by Solomon on the way back from that initial meeting. "A bunch of us were sitting in the back of the school-bus, singing schoolbus songs," Rosen remembers. Rappaport thought it was funny, but she also thought he was obnoxious...
Politicians are scared because they showed up for work last Thursday morning with the wrong answers. That National Commission on Character Development the Senate approved on Wednesday seemed aimed at some other problem on some other planet. Even as T.J. Solomon was loading his weapons, even as President Clinton was preparing to fly out to Littleton to mark the one-month anniversary of the massacre, the Senate was debating a juvenile-crime bill. Then the bulletins flashed across TV screens, we were back in the helicopter over yet another school, more running children, fluttering yellow crime tape, flushed sheriffs, nodding...