Word: killing
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...response to your question "can we prevent another Columbine?" [EDUCATION, April 24], the answer is most assuredly no--not with our present philosophy. If a person really wants to kill another human being, it is going to happen; there is no way to stop a desperate person. We can pass no laws to prevent this. We're trying to remove a splinter by cutting the whole finger off. MICHAEL YERKE Houghton, Mich...
...about the efforts to stop school violence. The safety and lockdown measures being taken in public schools are absurd and infringe on a student's already limited privacy. As for the "warning signs," isn't it a clear indication of danger when someone states that he has plans to kill another student? The profiling system, Mosaic, could forever cast an eight-year-old as a troublemaker, even if his crime were only drawing an armed stick figure. Friends would stay away from him, crippling any social life he might have. What a system. DAVID SEAMAN, age 14 Crownsville...
...Carl Tishler concurs. "Parents and teachers need to recognize that sometimes it's a very, very sad experience for kids to graduate from high school." At times this sadness is expressed in recklessness, Tishler says. "It may not be that someone says, 'I'm going to go out and kill myself.' But there are so many unconscious bad feelings. They get drunk, they slam into a bridge abutment, and they...
...center of the orgy of killing, maiming and torture that has gripped Sierra Leone for the past decade is a portly, ebullient former army corporal and wedding photographer. But Foday Sankoh doesn't personally hack the hands off children or slaughter their parents in his drive for political power and control over Sierra Leone's diamond fields; for that he relies on an army of abducted teenagers, forced at gunpoint to rape or kill loved ones - a brutal measure designed to cut off the road home - before being dragged into the bush, where Sankoh's drug-addled legions become their...
...wringing of your hands" as she dives for a telephone, and placing a recording wire on Ophelia so Polonius can eavesdrop on her conversation with Hamlet are all commendable directorial choices, but the work becomes spoiled with major misinterpretation. As the play was origianlly written, Hamlet chooses not to kill Claudius in act III, scene iii, because he discovers Claudius praying and repenting in the chapel. As we see it, Claudius kneels in a limousine, attempting to atone for nothing, and Hamlet decides not to carry out the murder for no discernible reason...