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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: On the shortage of lives on words-l
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 05:18:54 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU () says:
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- >>The shootings were apparently random, and I don't think anyone has any idea
- >>why he did it, kid included. :-(
- >>
- >>--
- >I'd not heard of that one either. My guess is that since we also have had
- >our own version of such massacres in recent times - Strathfield Massacre;
- >Hoddle Street Massacre and more recently and closer to home the Wyong Massacre
- >- the media here no longer has interest in such happenings overseas since there
- >are enough of these types of stories on their home ground.
- >
- Sounds like.:-( There have been other undergrads run amok before, and
- possibly since. It's sad that such incidents are no longer "news". It used
- to be that the murder of a local college student got front page headlines; now
- it's somewhere back in the local news....
-
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- ### Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead ###
- - ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
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