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At Brown University, a shooting tests a fragile trust
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A makeshift memorial for victims of a Dec 13 mass shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Dana Goldstein
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – Brown University is an elite school, set high on a hill, with manicured greens and wrought-iron gates.
But one of its special features is that those gates are often open to the larger city of Providence, Rhode Island – both physically and metaphorically.

