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...sure looks like they could use the help. The decision by the Jefferson County Attorney's Office Wednesday to sell a three-hour video collage of scenes from the Columbine shooting set to Generation X warblings would seem to be nothing short of tasteless. The move, just the latest in a series of public relations gaffes, has sparked such a fast and seemingly predictable public backlash that one can only scratch one's head and ask, "What were they thinking...
...have taken the music off the tapes would have violated the court order for their release. "Had we edited out the music, we would have in effect tampered with the videotape," he is quoted as saying. In addition, Hutfless blames the release in part on the families' lawyers' use of Colorado's Open Records Act to obtain access to the tapes. "[They] could have obtained the same information by using the discovery process" in their negligence and wrongful-death suits against the county, Hutfless said. "The result would have been that the materials would have been available to them...
...Basically, they're not letting us use our civil rights and free speech," Pierce said. "This isn't right...
...didn’t know what to do. I was trying to weigh out the good and the bad. I considered the fact that I didn’t know that many people at school yet, and the advantage of being the first victim in the country to use my name in the case of a date rape. I didn’t know what bad things would happen—how could anyone disagree with me? I didn’t realize how the media could portray you badly. I was usually picketing the frat. We handed out fliers...
...Members use the clubs for both business and social purposes. The intimate old-Boston ambience appeals to out-of-towners who are often brought up as guests. “At the Somerset,” St. Botolph members have long chuckled, “they have the money; at the Union, they manage it; at the Algonquin, they’re trying to make it; and at the St. Botolph, they enjoy it.” The Chilton and Somerset are primarily social. Even discussing business in the morning room used to bring a waiter with a silver platter...