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...past generation, since the National Enquirer reported in January that he had fathered an out-of-wedlock child with Karin Stanford. She was the head of the Washington office of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition during much of their four-year affair. In an attempt to refute the notion that he is mortally wounded, Jackson, 59, has been staging appearances with supportive ministers and Wall Street captains and issuing a barrage of sports cliches ("The ground is no place for a champion"). He obviously continues to enjoy a deep well of support among African Americans. But there's also no doubt...
...them to murderous fury--an understanding that could help others avoid such atrocities in the future. Almost all the shooters were expressing rage, either against a particular person for a particular affront or, more often, against a whole cohort of bullying classmates. Some of their stories confirm the notion that school shootings are a contagion, that the perpetrators are imitating the gross acts of carnage they've seen reported in other places. On the day that he brought to school a .25-cal. semiautomatic handgun that he had stolen from his grandfather's desk drawer, Brazill boasted to a classmate...
...Bush didn't want to linger on the discrimination notion for long. "I mean, I have been a happy person," he said. "I wasn't miserable. As a matter of fact, I enjoyed myself...
...level ground. Roofed Pusey's no Parthenon, and Harvard Square--for all its memorabilia--hardly Plaka; and the comparative praises of higher learning have already been sung. So I will risk the addition of hyperbole to say that the Athens of Greece and America are responsible for my working notion of history...
...year. Working with these artists has provided us as students tremendous insight into the practice of the visual arts, opportunities to discuss our work at a professional level of criticism and connections with many artists with whom we will stay in touch after the end of the semester. The notion that we should suffer from this continuing link to a vibrant art scene is absurd...