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...that of my considerably better-behaved younger brother) without dispensing a single spanking. They sent us to our rooms, sure, and grounded us or withdrew telephone privileges. But they never hit us. And even now my mother says that while she doesn?t see anything wrong with a quick swat when a kid really pushes the envelope, she just never thought of spanking as a way to deal with parent-child conflict. And most parents they knew felt pretty much the same...
...such callousness pales before the epic ineptitude of the German authorities, who by the account in "One Day in September" could arguably be held at least partly responsible for the athletes' deaths. With no SWAT team to call on, they assemble an unfortunate-looking squad of volunteer policemen disguised as athletes, except that the World War II-era steel helmets and submachine guns undo any camouflage effect created by their gaudy Adidas track suits, and put them into position to storm the Israelis' besieged compound. They call off the raid at the last moment, and only then realize that...
Politics comes off as a grim ordeal for her. Bob Dole joked that it will take a SWAT team to evict Clinton from the White House on Inauguration Day, he loves it so much, but Hillary gets more pleasure from one lecture to the women's conference in Beijing than in a year on the stump. He's such a campaign junkie that he pushed a speechwriter out of her chair to tap out Hillary's official announcement speech on Feb. 6 in Purchase, N.Y., then held a Nancy Reagan gaze as he listened to his handiwork...
...Detroit suburb, a man walked onto a private plane and greeted the co-pilot with "Hi, Jack!" The salutation, picked up by a microphone and interpreted as "hijack," caused police, the county sheriff's SWAT team and the FBI to arrive at the scene...
...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...