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White interviewed crime victims' relatives, police officers and academics in New York and other Eastern cities. In Chicago, Correspondent Don Winbush reported from neighborhoods afflicted by youth-gang violence. He observes, "All around me were decent, hardworking, caring, strong-willed people. How could senseless, callous acts of violence erupt so frequently...
...killed by hold-up men at a fast-food outlet. Baldly stated, the irony seems a tasteless contrivance: Son of Junk-Food Expert Slain ) at Burger Bonanza. But like Evelyn Waugh in A Handful of Dust and John Irving in The World According to Garp, Tyler uses the senseless loss of a child to refine feelings out of a parent's worst fears...
...psychology that seems to underlie the epidemic is as numbing as the statistics. Many of these young killers display an absence of what psychiatrists call affect. They show no discernible emotional reaction to what they have done. Some seem incapable even of regarding their victims as human beings. The senseless nature of it all baffles Paul Maurice, a retired black homicide detective from New York. "It appears that they don't have any idea of the consequences of taking someone's life," he says. "When you get a guy to 'fess...
...authorities complied, the stricken plane took off from Beirut, where it had landed after having been hijacked out of Athens. Hours later, it landed in Algiers, then took off again and returned late that night to Beirut, the tension rising, the crew bone-weary. And minutes after landing, the senseless slaying of a hostage, and a harsh voice over the plane's radio: "You see? You now believe it. There will be another in five minutes," and the nightmare rolled...
Bearing little resemblance to the crew that had beaten Dartmouth, MIT Coast Guard and Navy Senseless, Harvard watched as both opponents passed...