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Since his arrest on January 8, immediately following the shooting in Arizona that left six dead and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others wounded, the accused gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, a 22-year-old college student, has refused to speak to police or anyone else. But the photo of him taken at his arrest, and subsequent searches [...]
I’ve written it often in this space: TV unites us at the darkest of times. The visceral nature of television and its immediacy makes us feel as if we are in whatever place tragedy has struck. Now that place is Tucson. The scenes on TV from the Arizona massacre on Jan. 8 and its aftermath [...]
It’s too soon to know all the details of what really happened in Tucson, Arizona this morning when Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 other people were shot. Five were killed, the others left injured, including Giffords, who had sugery and is listed in critical but stable condition. The scene–a street corner meeting with constituents that Giffords holds regularly on Saturdays called “Congress [...]
