Word: thompson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bolstered by dependable play in net, Harvard knew it had the pieces in place to be successful. Voith and fellow juniors Alex Thompson and Jeff Lee emerged as talented scorers, racking up 28, 29, and 21 tallies, respectively. But after another dominant victory over Connecticut College, the Crimson’s season took a nosedive. Four straight losses at home left the team vulnerable heading into the Northern Division Championships, and Harvard dropped its opening match to MIT, 7-5, effectively ending the season without a bid to the Eastern Championships...
Murder is a shocking crime in the most typical of cases. But when a child kills another child, all sense of morality seems to be distorted, and no reaction is unequivocally justified. At the age of 10 years old, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were each sentenced to eight years in prison for their gruesome murder of two-year-old James Bulger. Now, nine years since his release, Venables is back in custody, and the public demands to know the reason. The questions that surface query the criminal’s right to anonymity as well as appropriate prison sentences...
...Venables, together with Thompson, committed a horrific and motiveless crime when they coaxed a two-year-old away from his mother and ultimately murdered the boy alongside railway tracks. After the trial, the judge ruled that the criminals’ identities should be revealed, and so their names and hauntingly vulnerable mug shots were splashed across every newspaper. Ever since then, considerable work has gone into hiding the identity of Thompson and Venables; upon prison release, they were given new identities, and laws banned anyone from revealing their true names. However, last month it was revealed that Jon Venables...
...Sophomoric, gross, and unfunny,” decried Hal Boedeker of the Seattle Times, “Its chances for success die each time Kenny does,” he waxed oracular. “Carnivalesque,” reporter Ethan Thompson declared, imputing to “South Park” a brand of clever satire with a literary tradition...
Despite finishing in the top third of the field, the co-ed team walked away from the Thompson Trophy, hosted by the Coast Guard Academy, feeling disappointed...