Word: whiting
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Students at Columbine don't want to wait that long. Eleven of them--their backgrounds as diverse as can be hoped for in this mostly white, Abercrombie and Fitch community--spend an hour one morning sitting around the conference table in the front office. They're brainstorming about what they've learned from their tragedy, and what they plan to do so that it never happens again. "I don't tease my friends as much as I used to," says freshman Kent Van Zant. "I try to be a lot nicer now to everybody...
...seniors have been more open to people, even to underclassmen. This is the class that they're going to look at to see what happened afterward. I just think that's a huge responsibility for us, and we're doing a pretty good job of it." Adds Lindsey White, who serves in the senior senate: "There are still cliques. You're going to get that no matter what. But more people are willing to talk to other people they don't usually talk...
...WEST WING (NBC) Attention, networks: There is dramatic life outside precinct houses and hospital wards. Aaron Sorkin's White House series is a love story of people and their jobs that overcomes its speechifying tendencies and tics (half the action takes place as characters stalk down corridors) with verbal gunplay, public-policy triage and an appealing lack of cynicism--about, of all things, politics...
...EBAY O.K., so it's prone to outages. It has a few white elephants. It may not even be the best auction website. But this year, eBay became an economic phenomenon second only to the stock market. Every day, 250,000 new items are added and 1.5 million visitors make bids. Even the President praised the site and admitted trading on it. Is there anyone who hasn...
...VIDEOTAPE If yours is like most families, you'll be renting movies to watch together this holiday season, to help get into the spirit. What kind of spirit? In a poll for the video chain Blockbuster, 1 in 3 respondents cited It's a Wonderful Life or White Christmas as the film that best represents their typical holiday experience. Another 1 in 3 named Home for the Holidays, Home Alone or Beavis and Butt-head Do Christmas as most representative...