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...Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, and why, and what the consequences were. He has read the killers' diaries, watched the surveillance tapes and interviewed many of the survivors. The result is his comprehensively nightmarish book Columbine (Twelve; 417 pages), published a few weeks shy of that grim 10th anniversary. Cullen's task is difficult not only because the events in question are almost literally unspeakable but also because even as he tells the story of a massacre that took the lives of 15 people, including the killers, he has to untell the stories that have already been told...
...Rubenstein didn't deny that easy credit also boosted profits. And at the Buyouts East conference in New York City in late March, I heard another industry veteran, George Siguler of the firm Siguler Guff & Co., paint a grim picture of private-equity returns in a deleveraging and struggling economy. "The available universe of companies that buyouts can buy is essentially mediocre companies, and mediocre companies are going to have a much tougher time," he said...
...estimates portend grim consequences: some 53 million people may fall below the poverty line if the financial crisis continues and remittances dip, according to the World Bank. In the Philippines alone, up to five million people are sustained by money the country's expatriate workforce - one of the world's most disparate and omnipresent - sends home. Some 10% of Bangladesh's total GDP, and 16% of Nepal's, comes from the remittances of pools of unskilled laborers working in Malaysia and the Gulf states. The economic impact of remittances is even higher in Central Asia, where entire villages send their...
Soon after starting his job as superintendent of the Memphis, Tenn., public schools in 2008, Kriner Cash ordered an assessment of his new district's 104,000 students. The findings were grim: nearly a third had been held back at least one academic year. The high school graduation rate had fallen to 67%. One in five dropped out. But what most concerned him was that the number of students considered "highly mobile," meaning they had moved at least once during the school year, had ballooned to 34,000, partly because of the home-foreclosure crisis. At least 1,500 students...
Rumpole often goes to prison to visit temporary or permanent guests of Her Majesty. Brixton in south London or Wormwood Scrubs ("the Scrubs") in the city's west already look grim on the outside. Their even starker interiors can be viewed by arrangement with the police - just throw a brick through a jeweler's window to get their attention. Any fan sufficiently dedicated to follow this procedure won't flinch from the dreary pilgrimage to two other Rumpole haunts: the Uxbridge Magistrates' Court and the supremely ordinary south London suburb of Penge, site of one of our hero's greatest...