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When old coherences break down, civilities and tolerances fall away as well. So does an ideal of self-reliance and inner autonomy and responsibility. The new tribes, strident and anxious and dogmatic, push forward to impose a new order. Yet they seem curiously faddish, unserious: youth culture unites with hypochondria and a childish sense of entitlement. Long ago, Carry Nation actually thought the U.S. would be better off if everyone stopped drinking. The busybodies today worry not about their society but about themselves -- they imagine that they would be beautiful and virtuous and live forever, if only you would...
...suspending the three officers involved in the Sinthasomphone case and filing administrative charges against them, public indignation rose as new details came to light. According to local news accounts, two black women called the cops in the early-morning hours of May 27 and reported that they found the youth, naked and bleeding, being chased by Dahmer. Laurie Eggert, a police- union lawyer, said the three officers who responded found the boy highly intoxicated and attributed the bleeding to a scrape on the leg. Dahmer convinced the officers that the boy was his 19-year-old lover and that they...
...sterile, high-rise housing project in southeast London, Rolan Adams, a black teenager, steps out of one of the neighborhood's few youth clubs. A gang of whites jump him and stab him to death. Of the nine whites arrested, five are acquitted, and four still face trial. The Adams family is receiving phone calls from people who say they are glad Rolan is dead...
...Singer died in 1944, I.B. assumed the literary , role. But the elder brother had been a rationalist and a radical. The younger one was apolitical and haunted by "a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the universe." The biblical and supernatural tales of youth provided the underpinnings of his work. As Singer's rickety Yiddish typewriter chattered away, the ghettos of the Middle Ages rose up again, with a cast of erotic shtetl dwellers and phosphorescent imps. The Jews of 20th century Europe, consumed by the Nazi death camps, were granted the powers...
...street. A man the women believe was Dahmer apparently convinced the police that the boy was his homosexual partner; the police declined to investigate. The 14-year-old boy, whose body has been identified amid the carnage in Dahmer's home, was the brother of the Laotian youth Dahmer molested in 1988. Three police officers were suspended last week pending an investigation into why they did not rescue the youth...