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Most of us do these things. Some of us don't. It probably would make a difference if we did. Tragically, none of these things would have saved Jeremiah Lucey, Lt. Thomas Spencer, Timothy Jackson, Joseph McGuirk, James Lyons and Paul Brotherton. The Worcester Fire may be have been started by an arsonist, though it's still to early to tell. The firefighters entered an old factory--a maze of stairs and doors and walls--to try to find a group of homeless people allegedly living there...
Such excesses have popped up with some regularity for a few years, but the consequences for rule breaking are getting harsher. Jesse Jackson has made an issue of severe punishment in Decatur, Ill., where six students were thrown out of school for one year for fighting at a football game. But that sort of violence (a videotape of the incident shows a wild brawl) has long been cause for expulsion. What's new is that even pranks can land kids not just before the school board but before a judge. Two weeks ago in Virginia, a pair of 10-year...
TIME's cover story on Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's finding of fact in the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft was right on the mark [BUSINESS, Nov. 15]. The suit brought by the government seems to have been less about the power and influence of Microsoft and more about reprimanding those who have acquired too much, too easily and too quickly. The government seems to think that people who have the wealth, power and influence of Microsoft ceo Bill Gates must be doing something wrong. Why can't our government recognize success for what it is--hard work...
...inaction. (Try "Renaissance Man," filmed here, if you can stand it.) On Wednesday we got to be in the Army - we got to go on a road march. All rigged up with helmets, rucksacks and LCES (a suspenders-and-a-half getup for canteens and ammo), we hit Fort Jackson's well-worn trails and saw South Carolina's scrubby pine-and-sand version of nature...
...first time since I've been coaching the Junior Team, I feel we have a well known commodity of players who bring strong leadership to the table," U.S. National Coach Jeff Jackson said...