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...didn't take specific aim," says Woodard. "He just meant to scare 'em, I guess. But then something went terribly wrong." She learned of the shooting from two back-to-back phone calls. "Don't you know?" demanded the first caller. Then her son Monte, 11, rang: "Mom, you have to come get me. Mitchell shot some kids...
...lunch time everyone crowds into the few closely spaced picnic tables, forcing neighbors to overhear each other's lunch time conversation. Inevitably, the table next door is populated by the Lewis family from Minneapolis. Three kids, aged 9, 13 and 15, sit across from mom, a secretary, and dad, a financial analyst. The two older kids have braces. Their father sports a pot belly and a cell phone...
...bingo! Eureka! You've got it! For what, indeed, determines merit? All those science camps mom and dad sent you to when you were little? That inspiring high-school English teacher, Mr. Perry, who always knew you were a poet inside? Or maybe it was all those grueling afternoons spent practicing the viola when you would have preferred being outside, playing with the kids on your block. Merit is enabled by all of the above and more. Merit is a promise, an investment in human capital. And this investment necessitates time, encouragement and, of course, money...
...other hand, however, maybe most people have the ability to "earn" what we call a position of "merit," but simply lack the tools to do so. Perhaps they are not so fortunate as the average Harvard student--or the average American college student. Perhaps they did not have a mom or dad who would cheer them on at basketball games. Perhaps they did not have the money to pay for an SAT preparation course. Perhaps they did not think it was even necessary to prepare...
...Maybe, mom had to work two jobs just to meet the rent, and asking for a viola seemed an incredibly misplaced and futile request. Perhaps their local community was economically depressed. Maybe, instead of Mr. Perry to show them how to release the pent-up emotions inside, they could only muster up a can of spray paint and a freeway underpass...