Word: galen
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Jeffrey D. Sachs '76 is Galen L. Stone professor of international trade, and director of the center for international development...
...Greg, a dealer of nautical books in Gloucester, Mass., delving into every detail about how Galen died was a way of coping with grief. His seven-year-long investigation became, he writes, "a single thread of purpose in my life. It had kept me from winding up in a detox ward, or from jumping off a bridge, or from shooting someone myself, while I healed." He debriefed everyone, from the psychiatrists to whom Lo described the inner voice that told him "it is time" to start shooting, to the gun dealer who sold Lo the Chinese-made semiautomatic SKS rifle...
Gregory Gibson and I met 36 years ago as freshmen at Swarthmore College. Greg was 18--the same age his elder son Galen had reached in 1992 when he was slaughtered in an act of senseless violence. Galen was in his second year at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, Mass., when a fellow student named Wayne Lo went berserk and shot up the campus with a cheap imported rifle, killing Galen and a teacher and wounding four others. Ever since then, Greg has struggled to wrest some meaning from this tragedy, and I think he has succeeded...
...tell him, 'Well, you stop that, Wayne. You no need to move like that when I talk,'" she continued. "So he stop for a few minutes maybe, and then he start again." It occurred to Greg, as he heard this bizarre story, that "it was not Galen, always so much with us, but this other, stolen, rocking creature who truly was the gone...
...walk out with a deadly weapon. Or if he had not been able to have 200 bullets sent to him at Simon's Rock College by a mail-order arms company. To my friend Greg, there is a straightforward conclusion to be drawn from the mystery of Galen's death. "We've just got too many guns in this country. We've got to get rid of them." Anyone who reads Gone Boy will find it hard to disagree...