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GERMANY School Massacre In the most shocking incident of its kind in recent German history, a 19-year-old expelled pupil opened fire on school staff members, killing 13, as well as two students and a policeman, before turning the gun on himself. Police said the scene at the Gutenberg Gymnasium in the eastern city of Erfurt was a "picture of horror," with bodies strewn throughout the building. The shooting followed a similar revenge attack at a school outside Munich in February and came as parliament coincidentally voted to extend already strict controls on weapons ownership...
Moscow police have promised to take "necessary measures" to prevent skinhead violence on Hitler's birthday. But one policeman, who impassively observed Zakhar and his friends hoist "Skins against Bush" posters near the McDonald's in Pushkin Square, didn't seem too worried. When asked why no "measures" were being taken against this group, he shrugged: "Where do you see any skinheads here? It's a rally to support domestic chicken producers against American imports...
...this modern adaptation, cigarette girl Carmen becomes a Quebecois protestor and smuggler, Jose a riot policeman and Escamillo “a Wall Street trader and well-meaning liberal working the proletariat agenda from within the corporate structure”—who, rather cleverly, takes on the “bull market...
...children’s book Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey, the statues were cast in 1987 by Nancy Schon. In the book, a mother duck saves her babies from the dangers of the Charles by moving their quarters to the lovely Public Garden and a nice policeman helps her. Visit for a moment of respite...
...Cranes (North Point Press; 350 pages), nature writer and novelist Peter Matthiessen records his encounters with each of the 15 species of crane, a series of journeys that takes him through Asia, Australia, Africa and North America. He arrives each time in the wake of vanishing populations like a policeman reaching a murder scene too late. The cranes' struggles in their eroding habitats are depressingly familiar but Matthiessen and his fellow "craniacs" remain undaunted. His book, like his life, is a tribute to the fight against the destruction of nature and, in a deeper sense, the personal struggle with what...