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SEEMINGLY PERPLEXED BY THE LACK OF A "monstrous cause" for such a "monstrous effect" as the slaughter of innocents in Dunblane, Lance Morrow [ESSAY, March 25] noted that "only the vocabulary of evil" could explain what happened there. But as long as social commentators feel they can justifiably use the term nonentity to refer to any human being, society will continue to be plagued by eruptions of violence like the one at Dunblane. BRUCE A. FRENCH Guilford, Connecticut Via E-mail...
...thing, there are no children in the barn with the militia members. That alone is comforting fact; this is not going to be a slaughter of people who have never violated a single law. (All those inside the barn are trespassing, currently...
...cows that are mad, it's the people that are going mad. Livelihoods are being threatened by gossip." On Monday, the British Parliament decided that no new action need be taken to curb the spread of the disease. The decision contradicted media predictions that the government would order the slaughter of the entire British herd to halt the spread of a bovine brain sickness that could potentially kill people who consume the diseased beef. TIME's Barry Hillenbrand reports that economists project that slaughtering the British cow herd would reduce the GDP by as much as 0.5 percent. "Economically, slaughtering...
...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...
LONDON: The stew over British beef continues to boil at a furious rate. Following lengthy debate over the weekend, the British Parliament decided that no new action need be taken to curb the spread of "mad cow disease." The decision contradicted media predictions that the government would order the slaughter of the entire British herd to halt the spread of a bovine brain sickness that could potentially kill people who consume the diseased beef. "The government is muddling through this," says TIME's Barry Hillenbrand. "They don't know which way to turn." Hillenbrand reports that economists project that slaughtering...