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...going to believe who's turning out to be a nice guy at school," Brooks Brown told his parents one evening in mid-April. They were at the dinner table in their ranch-style house in Columbine Knolls, a modest subdivision in Littleton, Colo., and the tall, angular 18-year-old knew the comment would stir up some dust. His mother and father, Judy and Randy Brown, leaned forward and asked...
...Littleton buried its young last week, and the sky had the good sense to cry. When 5,000 gathered to celebrate the short life of Isaiah Shoels, a warm-hearted young man slain because he was African American, Columbine survivors walking in the rain to the Heritage Christian Center didn't bother to open their umbrellas; if they could feel the rain on their faces, they must be alive. Inside the vast modern sanctuary, the explanations tended to be straightforward: Satan had taken control of Harris and Klebold...
Gore came out squarely for gun control, even as the President initially hung back. While the Republicans pandered to the powerful gun lobby, which targets heretics for defeat, Gore spoke eloquently at the memorial service in Littleton (even if he does mistake shouting and arm chops for animation). The raw sadness of burying children had temporarily alleviated his stiffness, and he plaintively asked, "What say we into the open muzzle of this tragedy, cocked and aimed at our hearts...
During the talk, Shankar told the audience he had created his plan in response to a general observation of an increased level of violence and aggression in today's children. This phenomenon, he said, was made even more apparent by the recent tragedy in Littleton, Colo...
...representative, who traveled to Littleton, Colo., to meet with the families of the victims of the school shootings last week, said the lesson from such tragedies is that "we simply must pay more attention to our children...