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...closest we came to subterfuge was in putting three of our youngest staff members, reporters Andrew Goldstein and Flora Tartakovsky and writer-reporter Jodie Morse, on the project. Goldstein, a recent arrival at TIME, brought to the assignment three years of teaching at a private high school in New Jersey. There are still kids at Webster Groves who think, wrongly, that Morse and Tartakovsky were posing as students. To be sure, Tartakovsky, a graduate of New York City's Bronx High School of Science and of Harvard, class of '98, could pass for a high school senior...
...French philosopher Henri Bergson said that anything that defies or distorts the human form is funny. But giants are rarely funny. When they are not menacing, they are pitiable. People do not like bigness, even when they are impressed by it. There are sound reasons for fearing the recent megamergers of corporations, but there is also the irrational reaction that we do not like the idea of anything that makes puny our control, our self-regard, our size. Thus the insults "Big man! Big shot!" Thus the derisive "Big deal!" Thus Wilt...
...time before they come to their senses, seize power and undercut the venture capitalists and corporate bigwigs who make so much dough from other people's brilliant ideas. Veblen was right, it turns out. And though they never met, the man who would lead the revolution was a more recent Stanford professor, peripatetic Jim Clark...
...informative analysis of the recent spate of fictionalized memoirs [ESSAY, Oct. 4], Charles Krauthammer bewails "how far we've come in bending the notion of historical truth." One cannot help wondering why he did not mention the four most widely known examples of apologetically inspired fictionalization: the canonical Gospels. Krauthammer's examples of "brazen confabulators who make up their histories and the slavish academics who justify them" are simply following the examples of the ancient Evangelists and the modern Evangelicals. What goes around comes around. THOMAS W. HALL JR. Foster...
Over the summer Webster Groves administrators reviewed the school shootings of recent years--what they had in common, what warning signs were missed, what safety measures might have made a difference--and then formulated a new security strategy. They rejected the metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs routinely employed by many schools in favor of an aggressive program of prevention and early detection--not just of obvious threats and violence but also of anything that might lead that way, including petty conflicts among cliques. Says assistant principal Raimondo: "We're trying to pay more attention to kids on the front...