Word: sprees
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...multi-city crime spree lasting barely an hour, four teenagers hold up two Harvard students and two Cantabrigians at gunpoint, including an undergraduate walking beside Lowell House...
...wrong in a peacekeeping operation." It began when the merciless rebel leader Foday Sankoh adopted a singularly ruthless strategy: if you terrorize enough civilians--raping girls, mutilating children, burning houses--the world will eventually give you just about anything to stop the atrocities. By July 1999 the beastly killing spree had spurred Washington and London into brokering a flawed peace-at-any-price, handing Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front amnesty, four seats in the government and control over the country's rich diamond mines. In return, the rebels were supposed to disarm and behave. Instead, the amnesty emboldened them...
...Klebold's movements, from their guns-blazing entrance through the school's west entrance (11:19) to the moment the two teenage killers turned their weapons on themselves in the blood-soaked library (12:08). But the report doesn't answer the questions victims' families have about the killing spree, namely: What took SWAT teams more than 45 minutes - almost the entire length of the rampage - to get inside the school, and another three-plus hours to get to the library? Why were some of the injured not reached until hours after the shooting stopped...
University of Washington professor David Shields, author of Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, sees Spree's silence as finesse. "He's never gonna tell. He'd be playing into sports journalism's hand. Like the racial situation in America--silences speak more than the utterances." Shields says Sprewell is one of the few players in the NBA--along with Seattle's Gary Payton, Houston's retiring veteran Charles Barkley and former Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman--who consistently, either consciously or subconsciously, bring racial issues to the fore through their use of language and symbols...
...doesn't push it where he lives, though: at home Spree's cornrows are fuzzy, not as tight and glossy as they are on game nights. "The bad-boy thing doesn't bother me," he says. "People are going to think what they're going to think. The first impression of me is the incident with P.J. I understand why I have the image. I'm not trying to downplay the incident. It wasn't right. We make mistakes, and we've got to move...