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When a first-grade student fatally shot classmate Kayla Rolland on Tuesday, people in Michigan - and around the country - scrambled to find someone to blame for the murder. As Genesee County, Mich., prosecutor Arthur Busch noted wryly Thursday, if this crime had taken place in 17 states other than Michigan, a case would have been opened against the owner of the gun used to kill Rolland. In those states, so-called Child Access Prevention laws hold gun owners criminally liable if children access their loaded guns to hurt themselves or others. In essence, the legislation is a gun-oriented, highly...
...Vietnam." It would be President Ford who inherited the final convulsion of that tragic war, made indelible by the pictures of desperate Vietnamese on a rooftop stairs trying to get on a departing helicopter. Ford insisted that a replica of the stairway be set up in his Grand Rapids, Mich., museum...
...ruminations on the "dainty violence" writers visit upon one another were delicious! Even the sainted American novelist Flannery O'Connor could not resist taking part in the intramural sport. Asked if she thought universities "stifle writers," O'Connor replied, "Not enough of them." CLARE MEAD ROSEN Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
...Buddy is narrated by Bud Caldwell, 10, who goes "on the lam" from an unpleasant foster home in Flint, Mich., in search of his father. Like his resourceful young hero, Curtis grew up in Flint. After graduating from high school, he joined the assembly line at Fisher Body Plant No. 1 and began writing during his breaks. He didn't set out to be a children's author. But, he says, "I felt I had a story to tell, and for some reason the voice came to me as a 10-year-old." Many years and several jobs later...
SENTENCED. NATHANIEL ABRAHAM, 13, youngest American ever tried and convicted of murder as an adult, to seven years in juvenile detention; in Pontiac, Mich. Abraham was 11 when he shot an 18-year-old to death...