Word: sprees
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...time the firing had stopped at midday last Friday, 16 people lay murdered in a scene of carnage that was grimly reminiscent of the Columbine massacre that took 15 lives in April 1999. The killer was a former student who dressed all in black for his murderous spree; he moved methodically through the building, picking his victims off one by one. And in the end, with 12 teachers, two students, a school administrator and a policeman dead, he turned a pistol on himself...
...victims. Police were on the scene just a few minutes after he began, alerted by a phone call from the school custodian. As they approached the building, Steinhauser leaned out of a window and shot officer Andreas Gorski in the head, killing him instantly. Then the gunman resumed his spree, which ended only when a teacher shoved him into an empty classroom and locked the door. It was there that Steinhauser shot himself, but the 500 unused bullets police found make it clear that he was prepared to claim many more victims...
...Early on, one of Aitkenhead's London mates seems aghast that she would even pursue this project, this "Ecstasy shopping spree, disguised as a book." More optimistically, another friend hopes the book will provide a kind of "cultural prism." The Promised Land doesn't quite live up to that billing, but it does deliver a light, breezy narrative with some astute snapshots of international dope meccas, more than a few chuckles, and an ending that leaves the reader coming down like the end of a good, night-long buzz. (Too bad the manuscript didn't have a better editor...
...hopes that HDNet will soon broadcast round the clock, Cuban is on a buying spree for content. Last month he signed a deal to broadcast 80 Major League Baseball games this season. He has laid expensive high-def cable in 40 stadiums. He helped NBC defray the costs of broadcasting the 2002 Winter Olympics in high-def so he could carry them on his network. He is shopping in Hollywood for 35-mm movies to be converted to high def. A kids' show is in the works. He even sent veteran war correspondent Peter Arnett to Afghanistan to report...
Spring break may be over, but the Harvard softball team’s winning streak is not. The Crimson beat Holy Cross yesterday afternoon, 10-3, on the strength of a two-out, seven-run scoring spree in the seventh inning...