Word: reporters
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...wish I could accurately report on our status in the world. We've got the weapons and the dollars. What Henry Luce saw as the American Century in the middle of the 1900s is nothing compared with the Americanization of the globe these days. Whether this owes more to cheap hamburgers or to free thought is hard to know. We are as we were and probably will be forever--eager to control the world and eager to stay...
People seem to be mystified about why the shooting of high school students at Columbine happened [SPECIAL REPORT, Dec. 20], but the answer is staring us plainly in the face. Like the parents of gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who did not notice the early warning signs, society fails to see the path down which it has been heading for some time. Harris and Klebold were themselves victims of a world that left them in a perpetual state of misery. They were desperately searching to find some way not to go out as losers. PAUL FEDERICI St. Catharines...
...noted that some people would be writing to you saying they had to hide the Columbine issue from their children. But I beg those parents to share the magazine with their children. Your report may be chilling, but it puts a face on the killers, words in their mouths and shows the frightening emotions they felt. An article like this needs to be shown to young adults, since we are the ones in school every...
...time to cross that fine line between a teenager's right to privacy and a parent's right to know [SPECIAL REPORT, Dec. 20]. If only the parents of the boys had looked, they would have found the clocks used as explosive timing devices and the pipe bombs that were intended to kill. Wake up, parents! A periodic search of your child's room may reveal secret activities and intentions. What you seek and find now may head off disaster later. ILENE SCHWABER Allenwood...