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...mourn the inexplicable, tragic murder of innocent people at Virginia Tech-the worst killing of its kind in the history of our country, we are told. Let's also take just a moment to reflect on what every day must be like for the citizens of Iraq, where senseless killings of this magnitude have become a regular occurrence in the four years since we invaded their country. Every time we read a sidebar saying "32 killed by suicide bomber," this is what it is like. Paul Graff, Santa Monica, California...
...What are you doing to eliminate honor killing--the murder of women who allegedly have brought dishonor to their family--in Jordan...
...Jones is quick to shatter this glasshouse of cultural cross-pollination. When Mary becomes the scapegoat following the murder of Perdita's father and is banished to reform school in Perth, Sorry begins to articulate the deep unease of a family faced with the unfinished business of history. And it is around the grisly events that took place in the kitchen of the Keenes' cattle- station shack that the novel cinematically circles...
...mourn the inexplicable, tragic murder of innocent people at Virginia Tech - the worst killing of its kind in the history of our country, we are told. Let's also take just a moment to reflect on what every day must be like for the citizens of Iraq, where senseless killings of this magnitude have become a regular occurrence in the four years since we invaded their country. Every time we read a sidebar saying "32 killed by suicide bomber," this is what it is like. Paul Graff, SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA...
...group in some tension with the world at large and organized around a single magnetic leader. But it is not a cult as understood in the popular sense: Jim Jones or the Branch Davidians, who in deep self-imposed isolation, honed a violent apocalyptic element that eventually led to murder or suicide. Those at last weekend's rally and throughout De Jesus' following, he says, do appear to believe we may be approaching the Millennium (or else why indulge in a Second Coming?), but they lack a fire-and-brimstone End Times scenario and their leader shows no appetite...