Overheard

Posted: Tuesday, October 10, 2006

"I would classify this as a very dangerous situation, a life-threatening situation."

-Jim Simpson, superintendent of a Joplin, Mo., middle school, after a boy with an assault rifle entered the school but left after firing one shot.



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