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...York Binghamton Massacre Before he opened fire on a citizenship class at a Binghamton, N.Y., civic center, Jiverly Wong mailed a rambling, paranoid letter to a Syracuse TV station, bemoaning the loss of his job assembling vacuum cleaners and accusing the police of harassing him. "I am Jiverly Wong shooting the people," it began, and signed off with a chillingly bland "Have a nice day." Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant, killed 13 people before taking his own life in the worst U.S. mass shooting since the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. Despite a 1992 arrest for fraud, the 41-year...
...exercise in disaster porn. But Columbine is a necessary book. Narrating an event is a way to tame it, to give it a meaning, and the Columbine massacre is an aggressively, catastrophically meaningless event, a rip in the smooth fabric of an otherwise comprehensible world. It's a vacuum that urgently demands to be filled...
...plan proposes this change as well as a more comprehensive oversight of derivatives (such as the regulation of credit-default swaps) that would be traded through a clearinghouse. Finally, endowing the government with the power to resolve large, failing financial institutions other than banks would fill the power vacuum plaguing the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as of late. Geithner’s plan is complex and still in its infant stages: Thursday’s proposal left many details up in the air so that productive exchange with lawmakers can occur in the near...
...sedately, but in Boyle’s world, Wright pulls this line off not once, but twice.The figure of Wright provides the punctuation mark to a narrative that is told from almost every perspective except his own. The central character’s silence creates a whirling vacuum of misplaced, fervid emotion, as every other character struggles to ensnare Wright’s interest and attention. The foremost question of the book (what is Wright really thinking?) is never answered: instead we begin with the ruminations of Sato Tadashi, a fictional apprentice of Wright’s. Tadashi?...
...Late last year, after two years bloody occupation of Somalia, Ethiopia withdrew. Instead of creating a vacuum for the Shabaab to fill, as many feared, Menkhaus says Ethiopia's withdrawal allowed Somalis to turn their attention to their own internal enemies. "The Shabaab have been pushed back by Somali communities," he said. "Somalis do not want their version of government...