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...awash in a sea of guns. Williams' father had eight of them. The father of Elizabeth Burns, the eighth-grader who shot a classmate in Williamsport, Pa., had 12 guns. Add to this the fact that we are a culture that has abrogated decent parenting and is addicted to violent media trash. The consequence is tragedies waiting to happen. RUTH ROSEN Santa Monica, Calif...
...latest exchanges of fire confirm that rather than showing signs of abating, violent clashes are actually escalating despite the Israelis' new hard line. The Palestinian Authority (PA) may be open to a cease-fire, but they'll need to extract a political price for it. In Athens, the PA reiterated its demand that talks resume where they left off with Ehud Barak, but that's a scenario Sharon has ruled out. The Israeli leader wants to restore calm and security, but he has no interest in putting the Oslo peace process back together...
...that's a problem for the PA, which derives its authority almost entirely from the peace process. In its absence, Arafat and his men are in danger of being eclipsed on the ground by more radical forces that have grown at Arafat's expense amid the rage and despair in the embattled Palestinian territories. The attacks that have prompted the heavy Israeli response of the past week were authored by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and a group identifying itself as a Palestinian chapter of the Lebanese Islamist guerrilla movement Hezbollah. None of them have any interest in agreements reached between Arafat...
...Crimson took the Cardinal into overtime last Thursday to pull out the 14-13 win at St. Joseph's in Philadelphia, Pa...
...keeps smiling and saying it is the taxpayers' money and should be returned to the people. But the government's huge debts are certainly the people's debts. The first priority should be to use our money to pay down the debt. BILL H. HAMILTON Pocono Summit, Pa...