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...Williams' long shadow, the debate over personal, parental and community responsibility has already begun. It's our customary line of discussion: Does a family, or a network of friends, prevent this kind of senseless violence? Are kids like Williams born with the propensity to kill, or does our society breed it into them? We're pretty sure that even an Ozzie and Harriet home life wouldn't have saved Williams from himself, but there will be endless speculation anyway, as the country tries to pin down the root of Williams' rage...
...west, and that all the transatlantic cultural overlap may obscure enduring differences. "We are so interwined in our minds that we expect to be more similar to one another than we really are," says Guillaume Parmentier, head of the French Center on the United States. "Familiarity, in this case, breeds not exactly contempt, but it can breed misunderstandings." Still, the web of economic and cultural connection across the Atlantic is so vast that it's hard to envisage how political ties could fray past the danger point...
...FAIR The always-in-style rocking horse DOG SHOW Tallyho! American foxhound chases and nabs Best of Breed FASHION WEEK Ralph Lauren's cavalry jacket goes straight from city street to stable...
...Springtime already brings out the cranks who claim all income taxes are illegal and need not be paid; the news that cheaters don't get caught will only breed other cheaters, whether or not they think they've got the Constitution backing them up. When the cops are off the streets, eventually the fear goes away. And few things tempt Americans more than the prospect of sticking it to the taxman and getting away with...
...proctors like Selsby and DeGreeff who have been in place more than a couple of years are a dying breed. The high turnover rate among proctors and FDO administrators has been well-documented, but Selsby is optimistic about the performance of the large number of new proctors...