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...pack road trips and puke-a-thon proms doesn't mean my daughter will. That scares me. But parenthood in general scares me. Something else scares me too: the idea that if I skip the porch talk, one day, after catching my daughter in her first big spree, I'll have to confront her about lying to me about liquor while knowing inside that I've been lying about...
...police, "stress" had overwhelmed Takuma again. "I want to die," police said he told them after they carted him away. "If I killed children, I knew I would get the death penalty." According to police, Takuma said he had taken an overdose of tranquilizers before going on the knifing spree. No one really knows what twisted logic motivated Takuma, although Takuma's father told Japanese newspapers that his son once did poorly on a test at the Ikeda school. But armchair psychologists are already diagnosing the case. "The noises children make sound good to many people, but for someone...
...parents and shooting 12 others in the room. Among those fatally injured were the Crown Prince's younger brother, Nirajan, and his sister Shruti. He then turned the revolver on himself, firing a .38-cal. slug up through his temple, the bullet exiting the other side. The shooting spree took less than 30 seconds...
...Killer Prince, Paras was involved in at least four hit-and-run fatalities and several incidents of discharging firearms in public places. Despite a public outcry last year, the King refused to revoke Paras' royal immunity from prosecution. The facts that Paras and his family emerged from the shooting spree virtually unscathed, and that it is his branch of the family that will benefit the most, have prompted much public frustration. Indeed, if the Crown Prince dies, as his critical condition presages, Paras' father--the current regent--is next in the line of succession, which means Paras would become Crown...
...profit - the 64-year-old Tchuruk has aggressively remade Alcatel since his arrival. Inheriting an unwieldy conglomerate with operations in everything from atomic power to vineyards, Tchuruk stripped the company down and shifted its focus squarely on the telecom business. Among his moves was to go on a buying spree in North America, snapping up seven companies including DSC Communications Corp., a midsized telecommunications equipment maker based in Dallas, Texas in 1998, and Newbridge Networks, a Canadian maker of data switches, last year...