Word: offing
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Your managing editor's explanation of why TIME chose to do the story was as insightful an analysis of the situation as I've seen: "This story is not so much about kids seeking glory as it is about grownups not looking and seeing, about people who preferred to sugarcoat...
One comment in your story that particularly caught my eye was made by Columbine football player Evan Todd. He justified the teasing of the "rejects" by calling them "homos." The picture he painted reflects the narrow-minded and offensive climate that fills Columbine High. It is comments like Todd's...
In the workplace, calling someone a "homo" is a fireable offense, possibly prosecutable under law. If a "whole school" is indulging in this kind of hate speech, then that whole school should be held accountable for it--everyone! The lesson of discouraging hate speech such as that used by Evan...
Perhaps the principal at Columbine was naive in believing that everything at his school was running smoothly. The reports about how some Columbine students flicked catsup packets or tossed bottles at these kids in the cafeteria, and how others teased Harris and Klebold, show there was a distinct lack of...