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...school, and it exploded in a flash. Some kids thought it was the long-awaited senior prank; they had been expecting balloons filled with shaving cream. Surely those are firecrackers, they thought. Surely those guns are fake. Is the blood fake? Can a fake bomb make walls shake? Then they were screaming and running. One boy could feel the rush of a bullet past his head...
...young and the older always eye one another across a gaping chasm. Gray heads shake in perplexity, even in a week of mourning, even over the mildest expressions of teen taste. Fashion, for example. Here are these nice kids from suburban Denver, heroically documenting the tragedy for TV, and they all seem to belong to the Church of Wearing Your Cap Backward. A day later, as the teens grieve en masse, oldsters ask, "When we were kids, would we have worn sweats and jeans to a memorial service for our friends?" And of course the trench-coat killers had their...
...magic wand you can wave," said Gary Bauer, a conservative activist who coincidentally launched his presidential campaign the day after the Littleton murders. Even Pat Buchanan, after firing off a few half-hearted rounds at the "poison of our popular culture," could offer little more than a shake of the head. "There was something sick and wrong inside those boys," he said. "I don't know how to stop...
...sizeable community of students devoted to reading, writing and generally appreciating poetry. I asked a number of people in the Harvard community why they thought poetry mattered, and received answers ranging from the bizarre statement of Hatim Belyamani '99, who claimed that poetry "is like a fermented milk shake. It can be cheesy but still quench your thirst" to Christian Lorentzen's '99 statement on the political power that poetry has had in the fight in Kosovo: "Epic poetry is one of the roots of the conflict in Kosovo. The Serb national epic immortalizes their defeat at the hands...
...sizeable community of students devoted to reading, writing and generally appreciating poetry. I asked a number of people in the Harvard community why they thought poetry mattered, and received answers ranging from the bizarre statement of Hatim Belyamani '99, who claimed that poetry "is like a fermented milk shake. It can be cheesy but still quench your thirst" to Christian Lorentzen's '99 statement on the political power that poetry has had in the fight inKosovo: "Epic poetry is one of the roots of the conflict in Kosovo. TheSerb national epic immortalizes their defeat at the hands of the Ottoman...