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...American Psycho Ellis tried to do what any artist worth his or her salt would do-get a desensitized people to take a good long critical look at themselves and their practices, indeed, to shock the unshockable. This is social criticism at its most offensive, yet most effective level...
...theology. As a young seminarian in Haiti, however, he was known more as a biblical scholar than a firebrand. But when he returned in 1981 after studying abroad, he was nonplussed by the poverty of the Haitian people. "I had been away for some time," he said about the shock of returning, "and so my eyes were reopened to the squalor and misery." Ordained in 1982, Aristide became a liberationist and soon found himself in conflict with the conservative bishops. In 1988 he was ousted from his religious order for preaching politics...
...first thing we say is we are with you in your shock, anger and sorrow. With you we ask how long must anyone endure abuse of any kind simply because God made them different in any way whatsoever from others or from a majority? We pray for the day when we can all live in peace and justice with one another. We pledge ourselves to working together constructively to make that common prayer a collective reality...
...When a crime of this nature happens to a respected woman of the community like Schley, a woman who was admired by all her peers, everyone is just in shock," Boyle said. Schley worked in Cambridge City Hall, he said...
...When confronted by a challenge, Americans have demonstrated that they can react and compete. The strong U.S. space industry is the result of the shock of Sputnik. Maybe what America needs is to feel threatened...