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...year ago, on March 24, Mitchell Wright was plunged into anger and despair. On that day, two boys, Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, played sniper on their middle school campus in Jonesboro, Ark. They murdered four of their schoolmates with 22 shots. They also killed a teacher, Shannon Wright, 32, Mitchell Wright's wife. Says he: "The ballistics report shows the Johnson boy fired five shots and had five direct hits. He hit one person in the head, he hit my wife in the chest and the knee and two girls in the knee area." The shooter, Wright...
...Cardis is revisiting a former insurance processor named Delilah Bell. Five years ago, Bell's fiance died of drug- and alcohol-related pneumonia, leaving her to raise their four children alone. To Bell, his death was worse than needless. It was a betrayal, and alternating bouts of anger and despair reduced her to a state close to paralysis. "I would talk to my mother about it," she says. "And she would say, 'Just let it go.' I'd say, 'How can you say that...
Unfortunately, the feelings of isolation and despair that often lead to thoughts of suicide are not rare in the Harvard population. We need to do everything we can to identify and respond to these problems. Harvard students may be somewhat more at risk because of the perceived need to live up to extraordinarily high expectations and the difficulty in meeting these expectations at a highly competitive and intellectually demanding academic environment. But it has also been my experience over the years that Harvard students possess an unusually high degree of competence and maturity that makes it possible to deal with...
Office Space explores the existential despair of human beings confined to anonymous cubicles in myriad, analogous corporations across the country. The protagonist, Peter Gibbons, played by everyman Ron Livingston, is fed-up with the endless paper shuffling at corporate nightmare Initech, his unctuously sinister boss Bill Lumberg (Gary Cole) and, in short, his life in general. Gibbons' arguments against the system are blandly familiar and add nothing new to the common polemics against human automatism. But Gibbons' main function is to give the similarly disillusioned audience an easily identifiable character. And the audience at this particular viewing (mostly 20-somethings...
...globalization process and turn it into a historic opportunity for greater wealth creation and distribution, into a tool for larger integration in the world economic system. That is especially important for regions that so far have been left on the sidelines and are condemned to oblivion and despair--maybe even violent revolt--if they are not given a chance and the means to integrate themselves into the world economy...