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DUNBLANE, SCOTLAND, HAS OVERFLOWED with tributes to its 16 murdered children [WORLD, March 25]. But let us also memorialize teacher Gwenne Mayor. In the face of dark and bloody chaos, she reached beyond duty and instinct into the best of her human self and staked her life to try to defend other people's children. That she was slain in this attempt, along with so many of her charges, in no way diminishes the fact that in the long run it is love like hers that will triumph. ANTHONY BUCKLAND North Vancouver, British Columbia...
...have received, testify that all over this world there are also kinder, gentler people. That is very good to know, but Dunblane is my home and a good place to live and, though I've been told that I should, I'll not leave it. ROBERT CONLEY Dunblane, Scotland...
...VIEWED WITH ANGUISH THE CLASS picture of the children who were killed and wounded in Scotland, I wondered how someone who probably once looked very much like one of those innocent little boys in the photograph could turn into such a murderous beast. LYNDA M. WILLYARD Bridgewater, Nova Scotia...
...weather proved to be a major factor; although Harvard held a slight "home-field advantage," having played at Duxbury on several occasions this season, the Crimson was not prepared to play in such cold conditions following a spring break trip to California. Conversely, Yale, which had travelled to Scotland, adapted much more easily to the adverse climate...
...nonsense of universal guilt--a sneaky bravado posing as self-accusation--has yet to show up in the wake of the slaughter in Scotland. What happened there was so surprising and so unrefractedly awful that it was almost impossible to react dishonestly to it. The mind simply filled with pain and disgust, and pure incomprehension...