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Before Ross found his voice as a volunteer, he was a silent killer. He primarily stalked the back roads of a wedge of Connecticut called the Quiet Corner, hustling his victims into the woods before he raped and strangled them. But when he settled into death row two decades ago, the Cornell graduate became a prolific writer. He published articles embracing his fate, including pious meditations like "It's Time for Me to Die" and "My Journey Towards the Light," everywhere from the National Catholic Reporter to Might magazine. Ross's private letters reveal a far more agitated soul--alternately...
...hush quickly fell over the room and exploration of the options was inhibited. When Japan was issued a warning from Potsdam a month later, no explicit mention was made of either the Bomb or the Emperor. Radio Tokyo broadcast that the Japanese government would treat the warning with "silent contempt." On the island of Tinian that day, a 300-lb. lead cylinder with a core of enriched uranium was being transferred to the headquarters of Colonel Paul Tibbets' 509th Composite Group...
...prosperous manufacturing area in China's Zhejiang province. Each had completed a questionnaire on local affairs as well as a poll in which they rated the desirability of 30 government-proposed infrastructure projects. Some giggled as they pinned on pink badges labeling them "popular-will representatives." But most fell silent when they entered the school's auditorium. No one knew what to expect. Or exactly what was meant by the characters on the banner over the podium, which read: "Zeguo's 2005 Selecting a Development Plan, Democratic Earnest Discussion...
...that only for the most prevalent, violent crime—sexual violence—that we create these undue burdens for survivors to prove that their accusation is legitimate, or that they were not at fault for their assault? A community that is silent, and that does not take a stand to support survivors, is one that allows these incredible emotional, legal, and societal obstacles to silence survivors’ voices...
What is equally disturbing is what a silent or inactive community says to its perpetrators. If no one were to speak up, attend a vigil, go to an event about rape myths, or any other educative or informative event, would we know what the appropriate boundaries of our actions are? Would we know how to communicate, or how to intervene to potentially prevent sexual violence? Would we know how to support survivors? Would perpetrators understand that their behavior and actions are hurtful, and that their community will not tolerate them? Probably not. We can all participate in and benefit from...