Word: littleton
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...have heard more than enough about the Littleton tragedy. Unfortunately, we have not heard nearly enough of the truth. The great lie about Littleton is that two satanic students walked into their small-town high school, sought out and killed religious students. For instance, the media portrayal of the event highlighted the killing of a girl supposedly killed for saying she believed in God, an event chronicled by her mother in a recent bestseller. After the authenticity of the incident was challenged, both by eyewitnesses and the formal investigation, the media took no responsibility for correcting their error...
Over the summer, a day trader in Atlanta shot his family and coworkers, and white supremacists in Los Angeles and Chicago went on rampages against people on the streets. Last spring, the world's eyes were riveted on Littleton, Colo., as two students methodically shot students and a teacher, turning their suburban high school into a brutal and haunting crime scene. In the past few years, equally unrepentant students turned guns on their peers in Oregon and Alabama. And this is to say nothing of the guns used on lovers and rival gangs, against police and innocent bystanders, in every...
...Levine Books/Scholastic Press; 435 pages; $19.95) finally went on sale in the U.S., exactly two months after its publication in Britain. Those U.S. readers who had not managed to obtain a copy of the British edition, chiefly through Internet orders, swamped bookstores nationwide. From El Centro, Calif., to Littleton, N.H., many stores opened for business at 12 a.m.; others offered customers tea and crumpets or steep initial discounts. Barbara Babbit Kaufman, president and founder of the Chapter 11 bookstore chain in Atlanta, reports selling more Harry Potter books in the first three hours of business than Tom Wolfe's novel...
Ricky is a disturbing presence. Prior to Littleton, he might have been dismissed as an improbable one. But that tragedy--created by kids held in contempt by their peers and able to conduct a criminal life free of parental interference--gives him a peculiar, if entirely coincidental, resonance. He is not, in the end, tragedy's primary victim, but he is its precipitator, and the instructor of the complacency that it is the business of this movie to shatter...
...parent-teacher-student association makes sure kids and families are aware of all the resources available within the school. Notes Stephanie Cashwell, who has sent five children to Grimsley: "There are a lot of good listeners." While most other schools in the county received telephone bomb threats after the Littleton shooting, Grimsley had no such "copycat" calls. "It's a credit to the kids and the staff," says social studies teacher Joe Franks...