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...Their son, meanwhile, wrote sensitive poetry while attending the High School of Performing Arts in Baltimore, Maryland. Shakur never entirely ceased extolling black womanhood or elders. Increasingly, however, such lyrics were shouldered aside by the bitches and cop-killing bullets of gangstaism. The dominant persona, says rap reporter Larry Hester, was "a villain, a joker...
Down below, on the barrier beach known as Fire Island, a 15-minute ferry ride from Long Island, Don and Judy Hester were at dinner. A friend had dropped by to tell them of a rare sight: a herd of white-tailed deer had gathered to forage nearby. Groups of two or three deer are common on Fire Island but a whole herd is unusual to see--even for the Hesters, who have lived there for 30 years. Taking their corn on the cob with them, the Hesters strolled up the the boardwalk leading over the sand dunes in front...
...terrorists cold enough to remain nameless have broken through America's cordon of safety, these experiences may be repeated over and over again. The consequences will almost certainly reverberate beyond this summer, beyond the besmirched beaches of New York. Early last Friday morning on Fire Island, Judy Hester walked down to the surf in front of her cottage. As she watched the sun peeking over the Atlantic, she saw that the glassy calm of the ocean during the past day and a half had disintegrated. In its place were "a lot of choppy, wind-driven waves." Unsettled by the sight...
...start with what Ms. Milgrom-Elcott considers to be the "fundamental question" underlying these laws, namely that the U.S. might be reverting to a "Hester Prynne morality where one sin brands you for life with the Scarlet Letter of sexual ignominy and security-risk...
However, there is a more fundamental question that underlies the new law. Even if such a mandate will help, are we reverting back to some kind of Hester Prynne morality where one sin brands you for life with the Scarlet Letter of sexual ignominy and security-risk? This law represents the ultimate rejection of the possibilities of atonement. The small lettering of this law reveals a return to a system where the policy is: once a sex offender, always a sex offender, with no method of paying for the crime or beginning anew...