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Concerning the potential closing of Arkansas State University's multimedia journalism program, this turn of events might best be characterized by the grammatically incorrect phrase made recognizable through its use in "Network," the 1976 motion picture written by the late playwright, screenwriter and novelist Sidney Aaron "Paddy" Chayefsky: "Woe is us."
"Away from goodness in the current data base." That's how Morton Thiokol staff engineer Roger Boisjoly, in a hearing investigating the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, said he described the possibility that the O-rings in Challenger's booster rockets would fail.
ST. LOUIS -- A group of ladies, probably in their early 80s, were laughing and moving through the crowd at Busch Stadium.
On his 1960 debut record album titled "The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart," the standup comedian included a short bit called "Nobody will ever play baseball." It was an imagined conversation of a game production company's representative rejecting (and making fun of) Abner Doubleday's pitch to sell baseball to the company.
As a graduate of Michigan State University's psychology program who also holds an M.A. degree in psychology from Southern Illinois University, my interest in the recent mass shooting on the MSU campus once again piqued my curiosity as to some circumstances surrounding mass shootings.