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Rep. Giffords to Resign this Week to Focus on RecoveryOn The Radar One year after a gunman tried to take her life, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords sat before a camera and announced she would forgo re-election plans in order to focus on her ongoing recovery. |
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Of Symbols and Meaning: Part TwoGwen's Take Last week in this space, I mused about how quick we can be to over interpret events and ascribe tenuous meaning to actions that so often defy explanation. Less than forty-eight hours after I posted that column, 19 people were gunned down in a Tucson parking lot---six died---and suddenly we were sucked into a situation in which symbolism seems all too real. Guns. Mental illness. Overheated political speech. Personal security. Everyone flocked to their favorite theory. |
