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...entire situation is incredibly tragic for many reasons. A mother and father have lost a child. A six-year-old boy has suffered deep and permanent psychological trauma. Schools once again have become places where safety seems anything but ensured. And politicians are picking up all of these cues: Now's their time to make themselves look good by twisting the issue around to fit an agenda...
...wants to be a millionaire? In the song the answer was, "I don't." But that was in another country. Gone these days is the character who practically defined American heroism, epic and tragic--Huck and Holden; Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Brown. Nearly all of Hemingway's heroes are defeated in Winner Take Nothing and in the novels. In To Have and Have Not, Harry Morgan had not. The dark, antiheroes of a time as recent as the 1970s have disappeared too--De Niro in Taxi Driver, Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon. Bruce Springsteen sang about his "town full of losers...
...read with horror and disgust your article about "Dumpster babies" and the new programs that offer a place where a mother can leave a baby and walk away [LAW, Feb. 21]. My rage is directed not at the mothers but at our puritanical, judgmental, self-serving society. This tragic phenomenon is the harvest of the views sown by the pro-lifers, who irresponsibly insist that a pregnancy must result in birth. I challenge pro-lifers to spend a week in an urban slum visiting homeless and unwanted children and seeing the quality of their lives. Perhaps the pro-lifers might...
...best be described as art-school hip-hop. The free-flowing lyrics on this album are inspired by poetry slams; the rhythms are stripped-down and direct, keeping the focus on the words. These songs are, by turns, grandly prophetic, perversely abstract and straight-up street. Far from a tragic epilogue, this is a welcome addition to the growing canon of outsider...
...brutal behavior that seems to have played a major role in the crime-reduction efforts of the Rampart division of the Los Angeles Police Department deserves to be vilified, whereas in New York City the four police officers acquitted in the shooting death of Amadou Diallo made a tragic mistake--one that not only took a man's life but also shook the trust and confidence of the minority community in the police department itself...