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...family is familiar with all this, as are the growing number of U.S. households "adopting" animals these days. The agencies tend to be cheaper than retail pet shops, and the families tend to feel they're doing a good deed by taking in a dog or cat that may have been abandoned or abused. A few years ago we turned to a "Schnauzer rescue" agency because, after our first miniature Schnauzer died of old age, we decided we liked the breed but were having trouble finding an affordable buy from stores or specialist breeders...
...while the President no doubt forgot about the note the moment he set his pen down, I'll always remember it as a kind and humanizing gesture. And here I am, ungallantly airing it in public. For Presidents, no good deed goes unpunished...
...candles lit in the church that lost 13 members. People make mourning small enough to capture and coax into service: myGoodDeed.org was launched as the micromemorial, a vehicle for people to use the day to do something for someone else. So far 284,185 people have pledged a good deed, to donate blood, take clothes to the Goodwill, knit socks for soldiers, skip lunch and give the money away...
When the golden dome of the Askariya Mosque in Samarra was destroyed last year, many Iraqis blamed not the bombers who did the deed, but American soldiers for failing to protect one of Shi?ite Islam's holiest sites. That conformed to a pattern; for more than four years, the U.S. military has been Iraqis' scapegoat of choice for all the ills of their country...
...Newman’s case studies also showed that, historically, school shootings are rarely spontaneous explosions but usually planned acts. Many shooters let off signals to get noticed, but are actually ambivalent to carrying out the deed. “Their real purpose is to gain attention and change the way the rest of the world and their peers define them and categorize them,” Newman says. “Once they’ve laid the groundwork, they end up feeling like they’ve backed themselves into a corner...and the fear of failing...