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...well - particularly the media. It may be uncomfortable for any journalist to admit it, but the flood-the-zone coverage that usually follows mass murders simply confirms a potential killer's belief that what he sees as his small and inconsequential life can end on a large and monstrous chord, even if he won't be around to enjoy the transformation. "We glorify and revere these seemingly powerful people who take life," says Kaye. "Meanwhile, I bet you couldn't tell me the name of even one of Ted Bundy's victims...
People who are about to do monstrous things almost never look like monsters...
...meticulously recorded his outraged, torchlit impressions in this remarkable memoir: the harassment, the chanting mobs, the beating of the elderly, the pointless destruction of food-bearing land, all the smashed crockery of a peaceful, genteel microculture destroyed by greed and ignorance with the blessing of Zimbabwe's monstrous President Robert Mugabe...
...there always redemption in reconciliation? What about justice? Some crimes seem too monstrous for absolution. Even today, it's a brave soul who argues that Hitler should be forgiven the Holocaust, Stalin his purges or Mao his Great Leap Forward. Were justice and reckoning not cheated by the deaths of Milosevic and Pinochet? What about more recent atrocities? On Feb. 27, prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in the Hague presented evidence that a Sudanese government minister and a militia leader were allegedly responsible for war crimes committed in Darfur in 2003 and 2004. When wounds are so fresh...
...first two games of the series. Favrot, who finished with 15 kills, reigned supreme in the first game, amassing several kills and setting a tone of dominance for the rest of the team. Weissbourd continued Harvard’s offensive forays in the second game, providing a monstrous kill, one of 12 for the night, to tie the game at 12. The Crimson quickly took the lead and never looked back to win the second game. “We played a fairly consistent match,” Harvard head coach Chris Ridolfi said. “Our team goals...