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Richard Hyland '69, a fellow Dunster House resident who was active in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), said he doubts the depth of Gore's inner conflict...
First the facts: This year, 130,000 Americans will learn that they have developed a tumor somewhere in the inner lining of their colon or rectum. For those whose cancer is discovered at the earliest stages, the odds of living at least five more years are greater than 90%. Unfortunately, fewer than 40% of colorectal cancers are discovered that soon. In the same period, about 56,000 people in the U.S. will die of the disease, making it the second greatest cancer killer, after lung cancer...
...long investigation became, he writes, "a single thread of purpose in my life. It had kept me from winding up in a detox ward, or from jumping off a bridge, or from shooting someone myself, while I healed." He debriefed everyone, from the psychiatrists to whom Lo described the inner voice that told him "it is time" to start shooting, to the gun dealer who sold Lo the Chinese-made semiautomatic SKS rifle, to the Simon's Rock College officials who failed to detain Lo even after they were warned that he had a gun. The result is a tapestry...
BRAT PACK Hang in there, parents. That naughty child of yours may turn into an angel--eventually. A study of more than 1,000 inner-city boys concludes that there's a nearly 90% chance that young boys who bully or engage in other aggressive behavior will grow out of it by late adolescence. Moreover, contrary to the worries of many Ritalin-weary moms and dads, boys who are hyperactive but not particularly aggressive aren't likely to become violent later in life...
...problem, however, is that this real Vann is never established. All we can know of him must be salvaged from the heaps of inner monologue and inexplicable behavior that the creators have thrown in as unnecessary complication. Sweet Vann is nothing more than a muddle of ambiguous symbolism and cryptic hallucinations--supposed fodder for post-movie conversation and analysis...