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Students and officials at the IOP were unanimous in their expression of grief...
After all, consciousness--the existence of pleasure and pain, love and grief--is a fairly central source of life's meaning. For it to have been thrown into the fabric of the universe as a freebie would suggest to some people that the thrower wanted to impart significance...
...Robbins does an admirable job of conveying the complexity of capital punishment in the movie version of Dead Man Walking. The bottom line, in the words of the Rev. Barnwell, is that "those of us who oppose the death penalty must be ready to face head-on the grief and anger of the families of the victims. Those who are for it must be ready knowingly to kill a fellow human being" as though they were the one on the firing squad pulling the trigger...
While Sarnat has the opportunity to present mental sickness in a much more disturbing way, her humor makes the existential grief of these characters more palatable--like the sugar coating on a pill. The characters can't help being regressive, what with all the medication they take. The humor, like the attractive musical score, is a reminder of happier emotions; but the play's ultimate message is that, in the words of one patient, "Dead is free...
Violence is, of course, more than statistics. Behind every number and percentage is a name, a face, and a grief. There is also a culpability and responsibility that we all share. The problem of youth violence is not a "ghetto" problem from which we can hide, behind the wrought-iron gates of Harvard. The problem is widespread and complicated, affecting children in rural and suburban areas as well as urban children. In 1987, 415,000 violent crimes occurred in or around schools. We all have a responsibility to provide a safe community for children--all children. Since we share...