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...York Binghamton Massacre Before he opened fire on a citizenship class at a Binghamton, N.Y., civic center, Jiverly Wong mailed a rambling, paranoid letter to a Syracuse TV station, bemoaning the loss of his job assembling vacuum cleaners and accusing the police of harassing him. "I am Jiverly Wong shooting the people," it began, and signed off with a chillingly bland "Have a nice day." Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant, killed 13 people before taking his own life in the worst U.S. mass shooting since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. Despite a 1992 arrest for fraud, the 41-year...
...difficult to say for sure if this week's events are part of a sustained dissident campaign of civic disruption or simply acts of sporadic, copycat violence. Either way, the individuals behind this new threat to Northern Ireland's increasingly fragile peace have clearly studied their history books. A similar campaign of low-level, civic disruption by the Provisional IRA in the late 1960s and 1970s led to the mass deployment of British troops on Northern Irish streets and triggered one of the bloodiest periods in the 30-year sectarian conflict known as the Troubles. (See pictures of new hope...
...this Orwellian moment where what's true can be made to seem like a lie and what's a lie can be made to seem true, and we've gotten to witness that over the past six years." • Criticizing the Bush Administration during a concert at the Hartford Civic Center, as reported in The Boston Globe...
...offers a ten percent discount for hybrids. The discounted rate for compact cars has not yet been determined. “I’m all for it,” said Jeff Meraj, a first year Harvard Kennedy School student who said he frequently parks his Honda Civic at the garage. Though he said the rate reduction would probably not induce people to switch vehicles, he said that the initiative “definitely increases awareness of environmental issues.” Though Benjamin J. Muchler, a Boston resident who owns a Volvo SUV, will not benefit from...
...need to incorporate spiritual concepts into public discourse. “The discussion was meant to debate the meanings of the sacred traditions in a secularized modern world,” Sandel said. “We’re both trying to make room in public and civic discourse for these discussions.” Natalie A. Smolenski, a sales representative at HUP and an organizer of the event, said that an underlying purpose of the forum was to discuss the role of the humanities at the university level. “The Humanities center at Harvard...