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Imagine, if you will, the following scenario: Take the musical sounds of rock bands like Fuel and Lit, add in the voice of U2 lead singer Bono, and then make this lead singer look slightly like Marilyn Manson. This composite image exactly describes lead singer Jimmy Gnecco and his group, Ours, a New Jersey band that will release its first album, Distorted Lullabies, in May. The band is mainly known to an established fan base in and around New York and other New England cities where they frequently perform (like Boston). Listening to a small sample of Ours?...
...years later, Brooks Douglass, by now an Oklahoma state senator, stood clasping his sister's hand in a cramped, brightly lit room at the state prison. Brooks had pushed for legislation allowing crime victims to witness executions, and now he and Leslie were watching Steven Hatch, one of their parents' killers, die by lethal injection. As poison flooded Hatch's veins, Brooks and Leslie re-lived their parents' deaths. Brooks describes it as a healing experience. When Hatch died after seven minutes, Brooks says, "I was happy... Witnessing the execution was an assurance that this is over...
It’s 4 a.m. now, and the next shift silently rolls up on bicycles and appears out of the shadows. Cigarettes are lit, conversation ensues, and finally, the huddled group starts to get up, stretch and prepare for bed. Some will come back with sleeping bags to wait out the night, others will be back in another two, four or six hours. They say goodnight to the cop outside, displaying conduct becoming of Harvard students to the last, and disappear back into the night...
...candles were later re-lit as the service progressed, and at the end a seventh candle was lit in memory of the non-Jews who perished, as well as those who risked their lives to save Holocaust victims...
After each piece, the reader extinguished one of the six candles that were lit to represent the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust...