Word: ago
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...guess it's hard to say if this has necessarily gotten better or worse, but there does seem to be more awareness of the issue now than there was a few years ago," he says...
...Yugoslav leadership has largely tried to repress the ethnic Albanians, but, according to Crawford, when the Kosovar Liberation Army arose a year ago, it gave Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic an excuse to use actual ethnic cleansing campaigns...
...older generation starts talking about "kids these days" and reminding us that things like this didn't happen 50 years ago. The younger generation retorts with claims that things like this are as random and senseless as they seem. Of course, neither generation is correct. We should talk about generational differences...
Events like the shooting didn't happen 20 years ago, much less 50 years ago. But they are less a reflection of kids these days than they are of the society as a whole. And we should not dismiss the shooting at Columbine a random occurrence. The recent plague of school shootings is evidence of the fact that this tragedy wasn't random at all, only that it could have happened anywhere...
SPALDING: A friend I hadn't seen in 12 years e-mailed me a little while ago to tell me I was in the book. And I just sort of said, "are you joking?" I had no idea. This was three weeks after the publication--one of [our friend's] moms had read the book. And I was like, "Oh my God!" And he said, "No, not at all, go check out the book." So I looked. And then I was listening to my mom who was sort of chatting with a friend about, sort of, the journalistic integrity...