About school violence (In response to Columbine) |     |  
 
Jacqueline Mitchard's 
piece about Columbine on NPR's All Things Considered on April 22, 1999 began: 
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My 15 yr. old came slouching in from school the day of the massacre at 
    Columbine High wearing his black jacket over a t-shirt and his usual bored 
    look.  I ran to him and held him for longer than I'd done since he was 
    ten.  Until he eased my arms away and said, "Enough hugging, Mom. 
    Don't worry.  I'm not a dangerous misfit, I'm just a nerd." 
     She writes lovely novels, too.
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  Voices From The 
  Hellmouth  Posted by JonKatz on Monday April 26, @12:26PM EDT: 
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    ...The big story out of Littleton isn't about violence on the Internet, 
    or whether or not video games are turning out kids into killers. It's about 
    the fact that for some of the best, brightest and most interesting kids, high 
    school is a nightmare of exclusion, cruelty, warped values and anger. 
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