Word: whites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supposed to be the day of South High School's big homecoming game and dance. Instead, the Cleveland school was shut down, guarded by police and surrounded by anxious questions. School authorities had uncovered what they described as a possibly racist plot by a group of about a dozen white students who had threatened an armed assault like the one in Littleton, Colo. Police arrested four boys, one 14 and three 15, who authorities said had made plans to go on a killing spree last Friday at the mostly black urban school. The assault was to end in a suicidal...
...arrested youths were charged with such offenses as inciting violence, aggravated menacing and ethnic intimidation. One was also charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder; another checked into a medical center for psychiatric evaluation. All told, 11 students were suspended. At a press conference on Friday, Cleveland Mayor Michael White said, "There is going to be a zero tolerance to any child bringing violence into a school." Parents and lawyers for the suspects contended that authorities were overreacting to teenage boasting and misunderstandings. Dan Shields, an attorney for two of the suspended students, told CNN that one of them...
Authorities and students described the suspects as fitting the now familiar stereotype of alienated teens. "They were known as the stoner types," says Melissa Oliver, 17, a white senior at the school. "They would wear clown makeup all over their eyes, dog collars and big old dirty pants. They were all white; they were loner types...
...White House on New Year's Day, 1907, Theodore Roosevelt set a world record for shaking hands--8,150 of them, according to his biographer Edmund Morris, including those of "every aide, usher and policeman in sight." Having done his exuberant political duty, says Morris, Teddy went upstairs and privately, disgustedly, scrubbed himself clean...
Each week the V.I.P. writers have a meeting to decide upon a lame excuse to show half-naked women. White-slavery ring? Trouble on a swimsuit photoshoot? The owner of a lingerie company under siege? Good enough. The writers' only requirement is to include one sexy scene and one action scene every 10 pages. But they don't even need to bother coming up with these flimsy premises; as bodyguard Vallery Irons, Lee wears 5-in. stilettos and a spandex minidress just to go to the office. "Val's wardrobe is her interpretation of being able to be everything...