Word: westons
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...Nordic team trains on rollerskis in the fall off-season, travels to a Weston golf course during weekdays in the winter, and is on the road every weekend after winter finals until mid-March. The team took a Christmas training trip to Quebec to get more on-snow time, as well as an intersession trip to Waterville Valley...
...patients. But old people and mentally ill people don't have the same needs, and few nursing homes hired the staff needed to treat the different set of patients. A bill before the Illinois legislature would require those hirings, but the efforts come too late for Russell Weston Jr. In 1996 he became an outpatient at an underfunded community mental-health center in Waterloo, Ill. The staff there can't closely monitor every patient, and Weston disappeared--until last July, when he shot and killed two U.S. Capitol police officers...
...item neglected in the rush of the week's news: it was revealed that Russell Eugene Weston Jr., who stormed the U.S. Capitol last summer, killing two police officers, did it because he feared being contaminated by "Black Heva," a blight that he considered "the deadliest disease known to mankind." Black Heva (which exists only in Weston's mind) spreads by way of the rotting flesh of cannibals' victims; Weston shot the policemen because they were cannibals preventing him from getting to the "ruby satellite," a device that is the key to halting Heva-breeding cannibalism...
Evil on paper looks impressive (one of mankind's most important words, invested with the dignity of mystery and theology). But evil in actuality, when it touches down on earth like a tornado for a moment--as it did in Weston's visit to the Capitol, or last week in Littleton--may have a style so tacky, so moronic or so indelibly crazy that it gives off a radiant tabloid weirdness. This almost novelistic sheen of the loony makes the tragedies curiously hard to evaluate. The evil effect is evident--innocent blood everywhere; the cause, in the case of Littleton...
...commentary on America's cultural obsession with youth [SPECTATOR, Nov. 9]: for the record, we at the Felicity television series did not fire writer Riley Weston when we "learned she was 32 years old instead of 19, as she had claimed." In fact, a full two weeks before she revealed her actual age to us, we chose not to renew Weston's contract. All our writers are in their 30s or 40s. Had Weston been the right fit for our show, regardless of her age, she would still be here. Next time, if your writer does even less research...