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...Park's so-called Vengeance trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. But movie violence, as anyone who's seen Saw and its quillion imitators, is not unique to Asia. And if you want to argue that this violent film provoked this disturbed young man to commit this atrocity, you should be prepared to explain why all those who saw Oldboy, and The Matrix, and Saw, didn't so the same...
...money and munitions. For colonial officials in London and New Delhi, this was no minor uprising of petty bandits. Intelligence estimates at the time counted 400,000 fighting men among the various Pashtun tribes, at least half of them armed with modern rifles. The insurgency forced the British to commit as many as 40,000 troops to the frontier, and, as World War II raged, to station a permanent garrison there even as the Japanese advanced steadily into Burma...
...killings in the U.S. involving five or more victims - one generally accepted definition of a mass killing - represented less than 1% of all homicides 25 years ago, and still does today. Among kids, the overall violence figures are actually plummeting, with the number of children under 17 who commit murder falling 65% between 1993 and 2004. Mass killing, says Diane Follingstad, a professor of clinical and forensic psychology at the University of South Carolina, "is a low baserate thing. It just does not happen very often...
...powerful and moving speaker. You could see it in her face and her eyes,” he said. “It was worth coming out,” he added. The Harvard Foundation Humanitarian award was inaugurated in 1984 as a way to recognize those individuals who commit themselves to improving humanity and advancing human rights. The first recipient was Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. He was followed by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel...
...rented in his name to deal cocaine. Mandatory minimum sentences also aggravate our already ineffective prison system. In the words of Patrick, “People come out more dangerous than when they went in.” Statistics show that nearly half of Massachusetts’ former prisoners commit another crime within a year of their release. Worse, since prisoners with minimum sentences cannot be released early for good behavior, the system provides no incentives for reform. Without hope of getting out early and with the law apparently against them even when they do return, many prisoners...