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...Lollipop. Picture-perfect vineyards announce the town's current prosperity; a Gothic cathedral and 13th century chateau commemorate its noble past. Just 265 km from Paris, the gateway to the bucolic Loire Valley, Angers offers four museums, a feast of theater and music, and canoeing on nearby Maine Lake. "This isn't the overcrowded Paris suburbs," sniffs Angers' deputy prosecutor Hervé Lollic. "This is a place of fine wine and history; calm and quiet." The official town website boasts that this is an excellent place to raise a family, too. Yet what occurred here between 1999 and 2002, years...
...Devil in Red Lake " [April 4] said, "Jeff Weise lost his parents but had close friends. So why did he shoot and kill his granddad and eight others?" He did it because he had access to guns. Without the guns, his difficulties might have ended in a playground fight. Weise's admiration for Hitler might have faded, or, in the best of scenarios, it might have been addressed by counseling. Too many fights--between husbands and wives, parents and children, siblings--wind up with someone dead rather than with just dishes thrown and doors slammed. So long as weapons...
...disliked the title of your piece on the school shooting in Red Lake, "The Devil in Red Lake." The ultimate responsibility obviously lies with the young man who fired the guns, Jeff Weise. But because he was a boy growing up poor and from a shattered family, with a confused and bitter outlook on his racial heritage and no one to counter the myths of Nazism and racial hate groups, we have to admit that in some way society failed him, and nine other people paid the price. Because TIME brought up the devil, as if a supernatural being were...
...people were talking about. I thought if a couple thousand years of the Judeo-Christian ethic hadn't corrected racism and lack of equal opportunity and so forth, my little half-hour situation comedy wasn't going to do it either. Then I remembered my grandfather, standing at a lake with me when I was 11 or so. I was dropping stones in the water, and my grandfather told me that each time I did it, I raised the level of the water. He said if a scientist were there, he could prove to me that each stone raised...
...manages to haul in a sand shark from the surf. Though it lacks the grandeur he had imagined, this experience proves exhilarating enough to lead him to his life's next great task. He moves to Dallas, builds a pair of 8-ft. stilts and wades around a local lake, screaming obscenities at the rich people in boats motoring by. The narrator of Ride, Fly, Penetrate, Loiter also finds himself in Texas, which offends him: "Dallas, city of the fur helicopters. Dallas--computers, plastics, urban cowboys with schemes and wolf shooting in their hearts." He hops on his black motorcycle...