Word: littleton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...husband to snap out of it. And Tipper has been doing more than fixing things inside the Gore operation; she's also been fixing things on the outside. Just when Gore seemed to be running out of steam on the stump, Tipper has been pretty much everywhere, talking about Littleton on Larry King Live, acknowledging to USA Today and the Wall Street Journal that she has suffered from depression, traveling around the country to push mental-health reform. If it didn't have the look and feel of a campaign rollout, it certainly had the desired effect. Her depression admission...
...just smiled--his poll numbers have stayed stratospheric and the satchels full of checks are still coming in to his ZIP code. Last week Elizabeth Dole threw a tomato. Though she did not mention Bush by name, the former Cabinet secretary launched a verbal missile in the post-Littleton gun-control debate, declaring that it was "wrong to let people carry concealed weapons." Her target was obvious. Bush, who had signed a 1995 law allowing Texans to tuck registered handguns into their purses and coat pockets, fired back through a spokesman on the same day. Texans were now safer, came...
...Columbine had never happened. I came to the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo--the first E3 since the Littleton, Colo., massacre--expecting to find the video- game industry in a defensive crouch. After all, everybody from my wife to the President has made hay out of the fact that the boys who fired 600 rounds at their teachers and fellow students had nurtured their violent revenge fantasies, at least in part, playing splatter games like Doom and Quake. But on the floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center, where Quake III, the newest, bloodiest version, was on display, the only question...
Conservatives have argued that liberals are unwilling to acknowledge the possibility of evil, which is another way of saying that they resist even engaging in the religious conversation that Littleton invites. But if we imagine how the talk-show version would go--a Crossfire shouting match on the nature of Satan--we may be grateful that the conversation is flourishing in private, at the dinner table, walking to work. If we wander a while now through more haunting places, if we read the news of the latest massacre in Kosovo and see more than geopolitics at work, if we suspect...
...GORE Strikes right note on Littleton; polls rise. Barred from subbing for Larry King, but job front rosy...