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...tended to avoid such gung-ho events, wary of all that 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...
...addition to the stories people who knew Jackie tell, in addition to chilling accounts by Kay and her two children, there are pages of police complaints. And there are the scars: Kay and several members of her family still bear jagged reminders of Jackie's nasty handiwork. A few weeks before Kay shot her ex-husband, he stabbed Kay, her sister Debbie and Debbie's boyfriend William Robinette with a butcher knife--a crime for which he was out on bond when he died...
Even more frightening is the idea that this was not the handiwork of an established group. Any major terrorist organization would have claimed credit by now, cashing in the political chips they bought with other people's lives. There is a twisted sense of comfort in fingering an established suspect. You feel as if you can deal with them, kill them, contain them, do whatever it takes to stop the violence. But at least you have that precious commodity, so elusive in terrorist attacks: a sense of control...
...Minister slain by a right-wing extremist last November, criticized Peres' high-minded refusal to exploit the assassination for electoral advantage. He never responded in kind to Likud's pointed, simplistic and endlessly repeated negative ads that yoked him fatally to the grisly suicide bombings; the ads were the handiwork of American political consultant Arthur Finkelstein, a reclusive strategist in New York politics who engineered similar attack campaigns for U.S. Republicans...
That's O.K., he responds. "Forget me; I don't matter." Except that during the interview, he repeatedly undercuts that assertion. He expresses mild resentment about doing all the "drudge work" of creating the Reform Party while others wait to take advantage of his handiwork. And he is openly bitter at personal attacks, like Republican editor William Kristol's suggestion that he is "not an entirely sane individual." Complains Perot: "Rather than solve problems, they want to destroy anybody who gets in their...