Parents fear ‘Hunger Games’ too violent for young fans

- Epic fights are already raging between parents who fear the PG-13 film will be too rough for young children and the elementary schoolers who insist they can handle it.

BRIAN MCGRORY

A crime then, and now

- Shirley Simmons, right, helped spare the city further racial violence in 1979 when her son was shot and paralyzed. Politicians promised to help, but they never did. Now she faces foreclosure.

Egyptian soccer game turns violent, 73 dead

- Egyptian state TV has raised the death toll to 73 after fans of rival soccer teams rushed the field, hurling stones and sticks at each other and sparking a stampede.

Sex, violence, and … superheroes?

- CHILDHOOD HAS been handed another nugget of Kryptonite. (Image: DC COMICS)

The decline of violence

- Bad as things may seem, the modern world is actually getting more peaceful. Harvard’s Steven Pinker set out to discover why. (Illustration: Greg Klee)

Prime Minister David Cameron says his government will look to cities like Boston in tackling the gangs he blames for helping spark Britain’s riots. Without diminishing the seriousness of that situation in any way, we did feel compelled to ask the question: What else could London learn from Boston?