Readers sound off on spring in NYC, hate crimes and unaccompanied minors
Rome: April has done its share of being the cruelest month: The Titanic chose this month to sink, Hitler to be born. It was not a good time for Lincoln to attend the theater, nor Jesus to amble in the gardens of Gethsemane. Chernobyl, Amritsar, crumbling San Francisco, blazing Notre Dame. And last April indeed made fools of us all.