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...that number so high and what are we going to do to get that number reduced?” said committee member Joseph G. Grassi...
Porter also gave an account of the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and explained the role of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon...
...indiscriminate shooting of strangers--and a twisted hunt for glory--has plenty of tragic precedent. But generalizations are hard to come by. Killers pick different victims and different M.O.s, depending on their motivation and mental state. In some cases, the victims fit some sort of pattern. Serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, convicted of nine murders from 1977 to 1980, has said he was trying to start a race war by shooting African Americans and interracial couples. At the other end of the gory spectrum, notorious shooters like Texas tower sniper Charles Whitman initiate one uninterrupted orgy of violence--as opposed...
After an inexplicably fatuous introduction that sounds like Joseph Conrad's Mr. Kurtz singing "Nobody knows the carnage I've seen" (he writes, "I have, at what cost I do not yet know...done my best to rub my own nose in the horror of the world"), Rieff settles into hard, intelligent analysis...
More than a century after Heart of Darkness was first published, Joseph Conrad's haunting novella continues to cast an immense shadow. His short masterpiece has spawned an endless stream of literary guides, dramatizations, even CDs such as Heart of Darkness by the aptly named Conrad Herwig Quintet. So it's no surprise to find novelist Daniel Mason also falling under Conrad's intoxicating spell. Mason's debut novel The Piano Tuner features an array of elements familiar to Heart of Darkness buffs: the madness, the river, the oppressive imperialism. Like Conrad's tale, Mason's book traces a treacherous...