Toronto According the Wall Street Journal, more than one-million students walked out of their classes to commemorate the lives of seventeen, mostly fellow students, killed by gunfire in Florida only weeks ago. The national map of where students undertook the seventeen-minute strike showed clearly that these actions were distributed throughout the country in hundreds and …
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Memorials for the Dead Describe Less than the Full Tragedy
New Orleans The horrific tragedies of our time call for action that is often unheeded, and it has forced me to think more and more about this puzzle. I have increasingly gravitated to a conclusion that part of the mystery of why this happens is that we inadvertently are allowing ourselves to minimize the impact …
Life as a Soft Target
New Orleans In the age of global and domestic terrorism we all now have a new identity. We’re soft targets. Hard targets have guards, gates, barriers, and buildings. The rest of us are out in the open, on the street, in our offices, at our cafes and coffeehouses, doing work, living life: soft targets. Mi …