Mr. Holmes, 24, who the police say brought terror to a midnight movie screening in this Colorado community, also left behind a litany of questions, many of them focused on how and why a once-promising student could now stand accused of being the lone gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in Colorado since the 1999 Columbine High School attacks.
When you see pictures of Petit walking between the towers of Laon Cathedral in 1974, you understand why a journalist once accused him of having a death-wish.
It was a beautiful day to be in Boston -- a day that explains why a poet once wrote that this town is not just a capital, not just a place.
Although she is frightened and repulsed by the plundering Bolsheviks, Teffi can see why a person once destined for a life of boredom and drudgery would be intoxicated by revolution, by the taste of blood.
Africa has never been talked about this much and – yes – there is a reason of why a continent once perceived as problematic and unattractive is suddenly the hottest date in town.
"The longer the crisis lasts, the more liquidity problems that small- and medium-sized businesses will have," said Oliver Burkhard, head of IG Metall in North Rhine-Westphalia, explaining why a union once known for militancy negotiated a contract that won praise even from bank economists.
Why does a once-great institution like The Times continue to infuse its editorial biases into its news coverage?
But why did a once-mighty civilisation succumb to the West?In "The Long Divergence" Mr Kuran advances a more plausible reason.
No one is quite sure why the SWAC, a once proud conference of historically black colleges, is at the bottom of the rankings, if not the underside of March Madness.
That his book is being released now, amid the presidential campaign, reflects perhaps the biggest contradiction of all: If Treasury has been making policies exclusively "by Wall Street for Wall Street," as Mr. Barofsky says, why then has a once friendly Wall Street turned so hostile to President Obama's re-election?
The next night Michael went to Grace's room and asked, "Why only once?" A moment later, a light shone under the door and Aunt Ailene called, "What's going on in there?" The next morning, Aunt Ailene called Michael's mother, who came north immediately.
