Word: shock
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Three years later, the double murder that rattled the peaceful northern Wisconsin town of Hudson still seems inexplicable: a funeral home director and an employee surprised and killed in the middle of a workday by a gunman who disappeared without taking money or valuables. This week Hudson's shock deepened further when a judge ruled that the murders were committed by a local Roman Catholic priest who served the town and spoke at the funeral of one of the dead...
...photo essay "Ghost Town" [Sept. 19] featured a reprehensible picture of a lifeless body floating facedown in the contaminated muck of New Orleans. That was disrespectful to the dead and their families. You may have intended to show readers the horrors of the aftermath of Katrina, but it was shock journalism. Michael Yonker Portland, Oregon...
...doubt many readers are as disgusted as I by China's use of coerced sterilization and abortion. But perhaps we should temper our shock by recognizing that China, with more than 20% of the earth's population, has a real and extremely serious population problem for which there may not be any painless or entirely humane solutions. The Chinese have a collective cultural memory of famine and mass starvation. We need to be aware of the reasons and rationale for China's population-control policies. John Coffee Marietta, Georgia...
...Dunne, also a writer, suddenly slumped over at the dinner table. He had died of a massive heart attack. They had been married a month shy of 40 years. Just five days earlier, their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne Michael had been admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and septic shock; at the time of her father's death, she was in a coma...
...long illness. Didion, already a widow, became a grieving mother as well. "I haven't started being crazy for Quintana yet," she says, almost matter-of-factly, "and I'm sort of past being crazy for John. Sanity came back, and now I'm sort of still in shock about Quintana...