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These boys had read their Shakespeare: "Good wombs hath borne bad sons," Harris quoted from The Tempest, as he reflected on how his rampage would ruin his parents' lives. The boys knew that once they staged their final act, the audience would be desperate for meaning. And so they provided their own poisonous chorus, about why they hated so many people so much. In the weeks before what they called their Judgment Day, they sat in their basement and made their haunting videos--detailing their plans, their motives, even their regrets--which Harris left in his bedroom for the police...
Black folks who know Jackie Goetter, president of the school board in Decatur, Ill., insist that she's no bigot. But when she lashed out at Jesse Jackson last week for inserting himself into a local tempest over the expulsion of seven high school students for fighting, she sounded a bit like one--the late Leander Perez. "I really resent outsiders coming in and telling us how to run our schools," Goetter whined, conjuring up memories of the legendary segregationist's threat to bury "outside agitators" in the bayous of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish during the 1960s...
...even if she didn't eulogize John, it was she and her children who became the emotional center of the service. She reminded the mourners about the love of literature that her mother had bestowed on her and John, and then read Prospero's speech from Shakespeare's The Tempest, a play in which he had performed. It was an acknowledgment that her brother had lived on a big stage but had understood that its "insubstantial pageant" would fade. "We are such stuff as dreams are made on," she quoted, "and our little life is rounded with a sleep." There...
When it was announced, the book stirred a small literary tempest. In the New Yorker last November, Joan Didion argued at length that all writers, even those "less inclined than Hemingway to construe words as the manifest expression of personal honor," should have the only, and final, say on what among their work will appear in print. Oddly enough, after running Didion's vehement objections to the project, the New Yorker published an excerpt from True at First Light...
...third internal tempest involved Riley's creation of a senior deputy position--captain of the department. HUPD had had several captains during its three decades of existence, but the position had not been filled for several years...