Word: stopped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Keone and his family, the doctor's pronouncement is the best Christmas gift they could imagine. He should be able to ease off on his weekly hospital visits soon, return to school as early as next semester, stop taking immunosuppressants in a year or so and maybe even start enjoying the sort of childhood roughhousing he was always denied. Of course, at 4 ft. 11 in., he probably won't be playing football, but he has been gaining weight, undoubtedly helped by the cookies and cakes he's been baking (and sampling) in the hospital kitchen in preparation...
...husband of a teacher, and he was sympathetic to the concerns of the survivors and others in the community. "Family after family told us what they wanted most was to know everything about what happened and why, so that the deaths would have some meaning and might help others stop such things," he says. "What we have uncovered is far more than any of them have been told. While they won't be happy to see the killers back in the news, they'll have more of the answers they've been seeking...
...SOPRANOS This HBO drama reinvented the Mafia genre with Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini, in front), a besieged, postpatriarchal, Prozac-popping capo not truly the master of his family or his Family. But the show didn't stop there. Structured less like an episodic series than a seamless suite, it redefined TV storytelling. Watch it weekly, and it's an addictive saga; watch several at a stretch, and its rich vocabulary of metaphors and motifs submerges and resurfaces with novelistic grace...
...hate when people's cell phones ring in public. Anything I can do to stop them...
DeAngelis admits that harassment could have occurred without his knowing, without anyone complaining. Kids as troubled as Harris and Klebold aren't likely to stop making bombs one day and decide what they really should do is talk to an ex-jock principal about what's bugging them. And an alienated teen probably wouldn't expose his interior life during a well-attended extracurricular event. But DeAngelis says the official police report on Columbine, set for release in January, will show that the school wasn't a brutish place where cool kids humiliated outcasts every...