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America has produced grand drama in crime for decades. But only when the deceased are famous or near famous are the internal fires of fear and grief stoked. The death of Ennis Cosby is a tragedy, unquestionably, but others will die a similar death in Los Angeles, New York City and Washington. Will those deaths incite the nation to show outrage against violence? When will we realize that these victims had fathers, mothers, siblings? We have lost our ability to weep for faceless, nameless victims. They deserve our sympathy as much as celebrities do. MICHAEL TIMOTHY WATERMAN Washington...
Thank you, TIME, for giving this important story the prominent place it deserves. Millions share the Cosby family's grief and wish them comfort. May justice be done. EILEEN MERICLE Ames, Iowa...
...coerced hugging. But that year everyone went. Too many people had died, and solidarity was no longer merely a buzzword. The quilt was unfolded. As I walked among the panels and the marchers, it was not the handiwork but the racking sobs of the bereaved that proved unforgettable. AIDS grief has to be rationed, or the tears can become infinite; those quiltgoers had allowed themselves to remember. The sorrow was undercut only by a leather couple I saw under some nearby elms, two fellows in full bondage gear. The stern master lightly flogged his willingly shackled slave with a riding...
...downing of TWA Flight 800 brought Americans monumental and collective grief, stopped the meaningless noise for a moment and reduced the isolation. On the beaches of Long Island, near where the plane plunged into the Atlantic, citizens from all backgrounds walked solemnly among the washed-up detritus of the crash--the serving trays, eyeglasses, baseball caps and sweaters--and would not swim in the sorrowful ocean...
...most part, the Scottish town of Dunblane has been left to its grief. Certainly, the press showed up at the half-year anniversary to cover a memorial service, also attended by Prince Charles, in the small town's 13th century cathedral. But in the months since the March day when a failed youth leader named Thomas Hamilton strode into the Dunblane primary school with four legally owned handguns and began shooting--shooting until 16 children and one teacher were dead and Hamilton had put a bullet in his own head--the British media have observed an informal blackout, so that...