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...fair to ask why we would want to hear from any of them anyway or have sympathy for what they have to say. But many have developed, sometimes with the help of psychologists, a better understanding of what led them to murderous fury--an understanding that could help others avoid such atrocities in the future. Almost all the shooters were expressing rage, either against a particular person for a particular affront or, more often, against a whole cohort of bullying classmates. Some of their stories confirm the notion that school shootings are a contagion, that the perpetrators are imitating...
...vice president's committee endorses nominal environmental policies. But any such policies are mitigated by the report's first recommendation, that federal regulators take into account the "energy impact" of any new action and avoid any "adverse energy effects." These caveats, in such a privileged spot in the report, essentially encourage regulators to take energy concerns into account when attempting to save the environment from our nation's prodigious energy consumption. That said, the group does encourage the president to pursue three-pollutant legislation, to limit the sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury output of electricity generators...
...Bush is trying to create fundamental changes in the energy marketplace that will ease America's energy woes for decades to come, and the environmental cost of that will be the subject of plenty of rancorous debate every step of the way. But for congressional Republicans trying to avoid getting scapegoated in 2002 for a president who's safe until 2004 - and for Democrats eagerly trying to do the scapegoating - politics is only as long-term as the average voter's attention span...
...expulsion of Palestinian refugees as "The Catastrophe"). It was a direct response to the killing of five Palestinian policemen by Israeli forces on Monday. Yasser Arafat's orders for Nakbah day were simple: Let's observe the day peacefully with marches and speeches. He expressly said Palestinians should avoid confronting the Israelis along the Green Line that separates the West Bank from Israel...
...Arafat want to avoid confrontation? Is it because the Palestinian Authority now appears to be making a diplomatic push for implementation of the recommendations of Senator George Mitchell's investigation, some of which are unacceptable to the Israelis...