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...squashed by those bright enough to recognize that such a move would accomplish nothing. The push for a slave memorial to be built on the National Mall remains strong. This seems a fairly harmless gesture that might be valuable if it actually served as a balm for the historical wound. Critics point out that space on the Mall will rapidly run out if we construct a monument for every crime that western society has committed on its rise to hegemony...
...said at the time that women especially identified with Diana, and that that accounted for the volume of the mourning. Every woman mistreated by a man--that is, every woman--could relate to moments in Diana's life that should have led to bliss and instead wound up in sorrow, humiliation and estrangement. Never mind that hers was a particular story wholly out of reach of common comprehension; it was easily translated to bad marriages and cold in-laws everywhere...
Eric Paulding of Dorchester, an 11th grader who aspired to become an electrician or a teacher, died Thursday evening, the victim of a single gunshot wound to the chest. He was shot as he was leaving his girlfriend's house and died almost immediately, according to Boston police reports...
Lacking answers, the summit wound down with a panel of actual children--a cute if predictable stunt. Onstage with their parents and teachers before a ballroom full of strange, faceless adults, the kids readily assured us that they do all they can to avoid naughty material on the Net. They were perhaps a bit more credible when talking about the genuine fun you can have online--a notion that may have escaped many of their listeners. The president of a Website company bet that if I asked summit participants what they used the Internet for, most would say nothing...
...descendants of Alston slaves. Another Ball convert is Allen Hutcheson, 24, a descendant of the man believed to be the model for Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind. "We have to find these people," he says of his family's former slaves. "You have to cut the wound open to get the poison out," agrees Ball. "I believe in the power of truth telling. I've seen it suture that wound...