Arizona Shootings

What are the odds?

Sheila Liaugminas | 17 January 2011
The other day, one of those optimistic University of Arizona Medical Center doctors gave Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords an unusually high survival chance.

Judge John Roll, RIP

Sheila Liaugminas | 16 January 2011
At the last Mass John Roll attended last Saturday, he would have heard the antiphon “…on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death, light has arisen.” Within a couple of hours he would be shot dead by a mad gunman. Arizona’s highly respected chief federal judge was laid to rest Friday, and those who knew him best say his life was filled with light.

Arizona

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 January 2011

Is it emblematic of America? Or an enigmatic new ground zero…?

 
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