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...recent tragedy the National Zoo this past Monday, should be an occasion for sober reflection. What gun policies are effective at saving human life? In America, at least, the answer is clear. The facts stare us in the face, and we have but to summon the courage to confront them honestly. The memory of the victims demands nothing less...
...sailing teams seized another busy weekend to demonstrate their ability to confront diverse weather conditions and still end up on top, as they finished first, second, and third in three competitive regattas...
Would any of this have helped at Columbine, where patrolmen waited outside the school for later-arriving SWAT teams rather than barging inside to confront the gunmen? Colorado Governor Bill Owens told TIME that he thinks those slow and deliberate tactics were probably inappropriate and will be assessed by his Columbine Review Commission. But most departments aren't waiting for more studies--rapid deployment is the order...
...violence we dont know how to confront is the violence of exclusion-the violence of a system that forbids its brightest students from studying what they love, that purposefully works its most promising talents to the point of exhaustion and despair. It is a subtle, unspoken, cold kind of violence, all the more disturbing for its complete lack of passion. It is a violence so ethereal that it is almost impossible to name, though a play like The Ohio State Murders makes it impossible to ignore. Ultimately, Stern and Kennedy were right to draw this most troubling layer of human...
...Dionne expressed hope that FBOs would force liberals to acknowledge the reality of effective non-governmental groups while forcing conservatives to confront the poverty that such groups seek to alleviate...