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...same title. It wasn't the most auspicious of choices for an opener: just as that movie disappeared without receiving much of an audience, the manic energy of the lead singer dissipated among the less than 100 people who turned up. Poor publicity might have been to blame for the empty-looking floor: while they were on tour to promote their new album Getting High On Your Own Supply, word about the concert was rather last-minute. Finally, in the second song, an exasperated "I don't think we're getting any kind of reaction" came out. Danger, Will Robinson...
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When a first-grade student fatally shot classmate Kayla Rolland on Tuesday, people in Michigan - and around the country - scrambled to find someone to blame for the murder. As Genesee County, Mich., prosecutor Arthur Busch noted wryly Thursday, if this crime had taken place in 17 states other than Michigan, a case would have been opened against the owner of the gun used to kill Rolland. In those states, so-called Child Access Prevention laws hold gun owners criminally liable if children access their loaded guns to hurt themselves or others. In essence, the legislation is a gun-oriented, highly...
...immediate reaction is to blame the jurors, who were selected from an 85-percent-white district in Albany rather than the mostly black and Hispanic neighborhood where the crime occurred. But the jury that tried the N.Y. case contained four blacks out of twelve jurors. Although the district attorney would certainly have prosecuted successfully in the Bronx, a conviction in Albany was not out of reach...
...demands that they be held accountable for their actions. Although the case is closed, the verdict provided no sense of closure. Nor have public figures been able to offer an adequate explanation. The Diallo case has left America with a question mark--if the police officers are not to blame, then...