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...world needing good and considers it to be a naïve conviction of idealists should take a closer look at our world. Twenty-three days ago, a car bombing in Tal Afar, Iraq killed 152 people. Last October, a man took eleven girls hostage in an Amish school in Pennsylvania and executed five before taking his own life. The examples are countless. People are not good to each other. Five thousand years of violence have shown the consequences when people fail to be good to each other...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: Why We Need Good | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...October 2, 2006: Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania An adult male sexual predator enters a one-room Amish School and kills six female students and himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatal Shootings at Colleges and Schools | 4/16/2007 | See Source »

...cease-and-desist order, a co-op member offered her nearby home as a new pickup site. Meanwhile, some of Hebron's clients in Michigan and Illinois have been flooding the fax machines of state agriculture officials to protest the treatment of the mild-mannered dairyman. In Feburary, the Amish farmer who supplies Hebron's co-op with raw milk received a warning letter from the FDA about potential interstate commerce violations. Hebron met with federal officials in Detroit on March 6th to defend the legality of herd-sharing arrangments, and is adamant about continuing his milk runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Got Raw Milk? Be Very Quiet | 3/13/2007 | See Source »

...center so trite as to be meaningless. The film begins in media res, with legendary photographer Diane Arbus (Nicole Kidman) donning a coat of hair that makes her look like some sort of vulture and swooping into a nudist camp. We soon backtrack to see Arbus as an Amish-looking housewife attending to her loving and supportive husband, Allan (Ty Burrell). By the end of the film, we’ve been treated to her transformation by way of midgets, an armless maid, and, most of all, a mysterious wholly-covered-with-hair lover-to-be named Lionel (Robert Downey...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus" | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

...think we’re blowing this whole thing out of proportion: that’s bulltitty. Yale is the worst college ever. It’s worse than most community colleges, including Amish ones. Imagine a whole campus of Amish, and then imagine sneaking onto it and knocking over all of the newly erected barns. That’s what it’s gonna feel like when we knock over Yale’s quarterback and burn his pant-less scrotum with our boiling hot wisdom butter...

Author: By Peter J. Martinez and D. A. Wallach, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Bell Lap 2: Bleeding Crimson, But From Where? | 11/15/2006 | See Source »

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