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...healthy to argue, vent your anger, the experts say, but there is so much of it, especially in the city with a gash in the ground where our skyscrapers used to be. In lower Manhattan they vacuum and wipe, go to work, go to a funeral, then come home, vacuum and wipe, scream at the community-board meeting about the filth in the air--How much asbestos is there anyway?--and the absence of school buses. After the first few weeks of quiet, the city's crisis hotlines are blistered with calls and there are no beds available...
...ardently agree with Lance Morrow that we must have the resolve as a people and a nation to vent our rage and seek retaliation [ESSAY, SPECIAL ISSUE]. I am sickened by the number of appeals for forgiveness that I am already seeing on church announcement boards and hearing from commentators on talk shows. Repressed rage festers like any other infection and weakens us both morally and spiritually. There is nothing inhuman or immoral about venting rage, protecting ourselves or trying to eradicate a poison that is seeking to eradicate our nation. In fact, I believe that to do otherwise...
...months before he was scheduled to graduate, and in response, Groton launched an investigation. Although the administration punished several students who were found to have participated in inappropriate hazing, Hawkins remained dissatisfied with the schools response of the school to his claim of assault. His frustration pushed him to vent his story at roll call on Revisit Day, the Prefrosh Weekend of Groton, when admitted prospective students come to get a taste of the school...
...midafternoon, members of Congress were calling on their leaders to summon a special session, to show the world the government was up and running. About half of the Senate convened in a conference room at the Capitol Hill Police Station to hear from their leaders--some to vent their outrage at President Bush. Both Democrats and Republicans wanted to know, Where is he? Why isn't he here? Why isn't he in New York? Why isn't he talking to the country? The answer: Bush had been told by the Secret Service, the military and the FBI that...
...midafternoon, members of Congress were calling on their leaders to summon a special session, to show the world the government was up and running. About half of the Senate convened in a conference room at the Capitol Hill Police Station to hear from their leaders--some to vent their outrage at President Bush. Both Democrats and Republicans wanted to know, Where is he? Why isn't he here? Why isn't he in New York? Why isn't he talking to the country? The answer: Bush had been told by the Secret Service, the military and the FBI that...