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...anything to do with the killings. But child-development experts say that for kids who never develop an internal brake on their own aggression, the pop-pop culture of weaponry makes a difference. "The violence in the media and the easy availability of guns are what's driving the slaughter of innocents," says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in San Francisco...
...state-of-the-art metal detector had been plunked down in the middle of the red dirt road leading into the hamlet. The Secret Service deemed Rwanda's memorial to genocide victims, on a hillock at the airport, too dangerous a venue for Clinton's speech on the slaughter. A White House advance woman felt compelled to remind network correspondents that it would be "inappropriate" to deliver their stand-ups in cell No. 5 on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent nearly 18 years...
...book and the movie, Jack is a guest star. His role is not so much supporting as hovering--like God in the Old Testament. He shows up occasionally to bring fear, awe or happiness to the mortals who are at the center of the story. He asks them to slaughter their first principles, hurls plagues of tabloid headlines their way, gives their lives meaning and hope with his captious majesty. Except, of course, that Jack isn't God. In luring his team toward corruption, twisting their idealism into realpolitik, Stanton is Satan...
...handsaw of existing. He appears to have lived considerably himself, in unusual ways and places. He knows how trout-fishing in Michigan feels; how Yankee jockeys, straight and crooked, ride on European tracks; how half-breed squaws bear their children back of the logging camps; how bulls and toreros slaughter one another in Spain. How he knows things you cannot say; he writes so directly, without fuss and feathers, with so little explanation of himself. He is that rare bird, an intelligent young man who is not introspective on paper. His stories are often incomplete; just facets of life, color...
...only a month since Speedster Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals, galloping into first base, had spiked First Baseman Jackie Robinson. Jackie, the first avowed Negro in the history of big-league baseball, looked at his ripped stocking and bleeding leg. It might have been an accident, but Jackie didn't think so. Neither did a lot of others who saw the play. Jackie set his teeth and said nothing. He didn't dare...