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...just took off. It was pure epiphany: a week before, I didn't know I could construct scenes, create characters in action with voices that pulled against each other, and make a social and political statement about something that was important to me. Writing on this rather grim theme, I was euphoric. The satirist's irony--the better I felt, the worse things...
...Brazill didn't at that instant grasp the grim future that awaits him, it probably won't take him long. Next month the judge will mete out a sentence that could mean a lifetime in prison. And if Brazill needs a clearer picture of what's in store for him, the prison life of other school shooters will give him an idea. These young gunmen, at the moment of their wrathful outbursts, were often filled with a sense of potency and triumph or at least relief that whatever or whoever was troubling them had been exorcised. But those sensations generally...
There's been a lot of grim news lately about HIV and AIDS: Rising infections among high-risk U.S. communities, continued risk behaviors, and plague-level infection rates across sub-Saharan Africa. In the face of such bad tidings, the latest news about emerging treatments couldn't have emerged at a better time...
...inadvertent killing of civilians was a grim commonplace in Vietnam, deliberate execution was a step over the line, a criminal violation of the laws of war. Yet one member of Kerrey's squad says that is what the SEALs did that night. Gerhard Klann, the veteran among Kerrey's green tyros, told the Times Magazine and 60 Minutes II that the five villagers knifed in the first hooch were, in fact, an old man, his wife, two young girls and a boy. He said Kerrey ordered the killing and personally helped him cut the old man's throat...
...paranoid and their commanders frustrated. So strategy was reduced to a basic formula: kill as many of the enemy as possible in hopes of breaking their morale. We deployed our vast arsenal, and butchered at least a million of them. We gauged progress by piles of twisted corpses--the grim "body count." Yet the Vietnamese continued to fight. After the war, Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr. crowed to a communist officer, "We won every battle." Replied his analog: "That may be true, but it's irrelevant...