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Garbarino has spent a lot of time interviewing Klebold's parents (though he was constrained from directly quoting them, since they are being sued by victims' families). Tom and Sue Klebold, he told me, turn out to be loving and involved parents. It's not that they didn't work hard at knowing their son. Rather, he deceived them about who he actually was. Garbarino considers the Klebolds an extreme case of a common phenomenon, where children grow adept at hiding their vulnerabilities and dark secrets, while at the same time being exposed to influences that can translate their adolescent...
...years ago. (Batches of compensation, worth a reported $300 million, were given to families of other victims.) Dissatisfied with negotiations, the two sisters traveled to Japan from their home in London last month not only to pay tribute to their father but also to announce they may sue. "We have waited long enough," says their mother, Susanne Bayly. "It's time to tell the whole story...
...were religious, but few were home schooling only to instill values. They had come to their decision after a variety of frustrations. Among them: the Fayetteville, Ga., school with 45 kindergartners in one room; the school administrators in Wheaton, Ill., who were so confused over what to do with Sue McCallum's boy that they put him in both remedial and gifted classes; the Glendale, Calif., school where Robert Phillipps' fifth-grader Bill saw too many fistfights...
Early in the week it looked certain that a bipartisan bill making it easy for patients to sue their HMOs would pass the House. Republican Charlie Norwood, a dentist turned Congressman and a leading voice on the issue, wasn't bowing to constant pressure from Bush. As Norwood shuttled back and forth between the White House and his allies--including Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy--he promised them he wouldn't sell...
While Norwood was throwing his support behind the President's plan--which caps pain-and-suffering and punitive damages at a total of $3 million and allows patients to sue in state court but only under more strict federal guidelines--Norwood's allies were throwing their remotes at the TV. "Charlie, how the hell can you do this?" groaned Kennedy when Norwood came back to confront his old gang. Norwood admitted he didn't know the details of the deal he had just made. House G.O.P. leaders rushed the bill to the floor while it was still being written. Democrats...