Word: suburbanitis
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...with him was still better than the one I was in: made-up, perfect, grand, a matte painting of a path up a vine-covered cliff, dramatically lit by a shaft of sunlight through a break in the clouds. I could interpose it between myself and the depressed new-suburban vista that surrounded...
...Before the hailstorm of indignant criticism begins, we ask that you note the following caveat: We did not choose Williams as person of the week to glorify his murderous rage or to in any way minimize the damage he has inflicted on his suburban community. We chose this 15-year-old because he has resurrected our darkest, post-Columbine fears, and reignited innumerable stalled debates over gun control, parental responsibility and school safety measures...
...another subject. In the face of mandatory sentencing for this 15-year-old as an adult, I am more concerned with the deeper problem of who or what is at fault. A year and a half after Columbine, the lessons of intolerance have not been learned in America's suburban schools...
...good spy needs a good cover, and Hanssen had one of the best. He looked the quintessential suburban dad, devoted to his wife and six kids, working a government job to pay for a four-bedroom split-level house on a cul-de-sac in a modest Virginia neighborhood, Catholic school and college for the kids, and three aging cars. Neighbors often saw him walking through a neighborhood park at night, letting his dog romp, though he rarely stopped to chat. He piled the family into a van every Sunday for Mass at the same church FBI boss Louis Freeh...
...some of the community's old guard. But the phenomenon could no longer be covered up after Oct. 2, 1999, when Florida officials working on a tip from neighbors removed a 12-year-old Haitian girl--filthy, unkempt and in acute abdominal pain from repeated rape--from the affluent suburban home of middle-class Haitian-American merchants Willy and Marie Pompee in Pembroke Pines. The girl, a restavek, said she had been forced to have sex with the Pompees' 20-year-old son Willy Jr. since she was nine. The father and son, who police...