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There were other, similar incidents last week, although they tended to blend into one another amid the general hand-wringing. In Twentynine Palms, California, two 17-year-old students were arrested after someone overheard them discussing their "hit list" of 16 classmates, while a student in Harlingen, Texas was expelled for having a "hit list" of his own. In Williamsport, Pennsylvania, a female student shot another girl in the shoulder during lunch period. In the Seattle area, a 16-year-old student pulled a gun on his classmates. Then there are the kids who were arrested for bringing guns...
...hottest parlor game: Guess the Nickname. "Stretch" is an easy one, if not especially original--it can apply to either David Gregory of NBC News or, as at the press confab, Richard Keil of Bloomberg. Both are about 6 ft. 6 in. Other nicknames are being overheard at photo ops, D.C. dinners and Cabinet meetings. While Bush's method appears scattershot, we have--eureka!--discerned a pattern to the moniker madness...
While many people lost more money than I did on the Super Bowl, none lost theirs as stupidly. On Nov. 10, I overheard my co-worker Josh Tyrangiel, who is from Baltimore, say he was going to put $10 down in Vegas on the Ravens' winning the Super Bowl, for a 20-1 payout of $200. Despite the fact that I knew nothing about the Ravens, oddsmaking, or, sadly, something called "the vig," I was convinced he was wrong and offered to be his bookie. Turns out accepting one bet isn't how most bookies make their living. Oddly, collecting...
...that goes nowhere, and a relationship with a suicidal woman at the office. Meyers gets lost in these meanderings. The movie has none of the giddy wit we associate with classic romantic comedy. It just runs on and on--like a slightly stupid story you wish you hadn't overheard in a singles...
...that goes nowhere, and a relationship with a suicidal woman at the office. Meyers gets lost in these meanderings. The movie has none of the giddy wit we associate with classic romantic comedy. It just runs on and on - like a slightly stupid story you wish you hadn't overheard in a singles...