Word: assaulting
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...Wednesday when his personal assistant targeted him with a stun gun. Spade, 36, suffered minor injuries and was treated on the scene by paramedics. The alleged shooter, David Malloy, fled Spade's home before police arrived but was quickly tracked down and arrested on charges of suspicion of burglary, assault with a deadly weapon and assault with a stun gun. Bail was set at $50,000. The usually acid Spade was shockingly kind in a postshooting statement: "David Malloy was a good friend of mine for five years. I believe he is a good person who is obviously mentally troubled...
...Knight, whose three championships had always served as penance for his sins, but at Sperber, who had the gall to say it was time for Knight to go. Not to quibble, but it might have been time in 1988, when Knight compared the stress of coaching to sexual assault, saying, "If rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy...
...unrepentant Ralph Nader voter [ELECTION 2000, Nov. 20], and I am disgusted by the continued assault on Nader as a person. It is not surprising that the critics have to stoop to attacking his character, because if they bothered to consider the actual content of his message, they would have nothing to say. Once this electoral melodrama has run its course, we will see that Nader was right. No matter who takes office, it will be business as usual. JEREMY RAYMONDJACK Lowell, Mass...
Peter, rather sensibly, quits climbing and takes up nature photography. Annie, however, joins forces with an egomaniacal mogul (Bill Paxton) for an assault on K2, said to be the world's toughest mountain to master. His inner skankiness comes out when they fall into a snow cave and have to be rescued before succumbing to altitude sickness...
...counters assemble across Florida and Judge Sauls rubs his temples in anguish, both Gore and Bush have preemptive strikes to make. Gore has already prepared a legal and public-relations assault on the Florida legislature in general and Jeb Bush in particular. Saturday he releases the hounds...