Word: ages
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...tears from Couric, no further mention of her loss. She went to work interviewing former Secretary of State James Baker. What made the incident impressive as well as affecting was, in part, that it was so out of step with the modern way of handling personal difficulty. In an age that makes the most--and generally the worst--of any disappointment, much less grief, in which people weep lavishly at the drop of a stock market, and the tendency of television is to devote a special to the heartbreak of psoriasis, here was decent, neoclassical, proper restraint...
When he died in 1885 at age 83, Victor Hugo was beyond question the most famous man of letters in France, and perhaps the world--his only rival being Charles Dickens. The English put up plaques to show where their literary celebrities lived or were born, and sometimes grant them burial in Westminster Abbey. Hugo, however, is the only writer to have a stone mark his place of conception. His parents' epochal embrace took place in a forest 3,000 ft. up on the flank of Mount Donon, overlooking the Rhineland, in May 1801, though it's typical of Hugo...
What kind of parent intentionally glorifies guns to a child at a tender age? What kind of parent allows a child to wear camouflage clothing and carry a knife? What kind of parent is seemingly proud of and has glam photos of a child with a weapon? This is simply sick. KRIS SHARMAN Burlington...
America, don't beat up on yourself over the killings in Jonesboro. In Canada we also have violence and murder committed by schoolchildren. The U.S. has almost 50 million school-age youngsters. The acts of two or three should not be used to condemn the entire country. MICHAEL SILVERBROOKE North Vancouver...
...that after the shooting, the two boys had planned to drive three or four hours to a cabin in the woods owned by the Goldens. For that they needed gas, but the three stations the duo stopped at as they drove to school refused them service because of their age...