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Your item "Reality Bytes" reported on the Internet game JFK Reloaded [Dec. 6]. It is absolutely despicable that people would make a computer game about a real-life tragedy like the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The creators of the game seem to accept the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman involved, even though many documentaries question that conclusion. JFK Reloaded makes killing seem like a game, and is very insensitive to the surviving Kennedys and all who admired Kennedy's presidency...
...Supreme Court, or to circumvent it, we will be started on a course to challenge the entire authority of the U.S. This is a ridiculous course; following it once led us to secession and defeat; surely we should have learned from that lesson. It would be more sensible to accept the Court's ruling, and accept it with the good grace that will cost us nothing. It will prevent the unhappiness and discord which now seems inevitable...
...They accept it as truth,” Tuross said, “but that assumption has never been tested empirically...
Everyone Mathilde knows tells her to move on, to accept his death. But she is connected to him; she is sure she would know, somehow, if he were dead. They have grown up together, spent all their time with each other until Manech went to war. She is sure he is alive. And with resolve and conviction, she sets out to learn his fate...
...hero in the purest sense of the word, and yet he is still to be admired, even if he is also abhorred. Eschewing stereotyping for true character development, Kassell forces her audience to walk a fine line between sympathy and disgust. Leaving the theater, viewers must be content to accept both their repulsion and their admiration for Walter. Often disturbing, sometimes difficult to watch, but always stimulating and emotionally charged, The Woodsman is a powerful and staggering work, and it is not to be missed...